Artist: Alexandra Makhlouf, Title: Untitled, Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper Date: 2010, Dimensions: 100 x 82mm   The ‘Visual Platform’, which will appear in every issue of DK Arts @ Jozilife, will create a platform for emerging artists to show their work to a large audience. If you would like your artwork (2D, ie. [...]

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1st September Alexandra Makhlouf joined me today, having spent some time observing Stompie and Jess working on monotypes previously.  She prepared diligently for our time together, and todays images are based on three novels.  Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and George Orwell’s Animal farm, and 1984.  We spent the day working with mostly greys, modifying them [...]

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Picasso: Peace and Freedom reveals a radically different figure from the one often presented in art historical accounts. In it we meet a politically and socially engaged artist, who joined the French Communist Party in October 1944 and remained a member until his death in 1973. Actively engaged in the Peace Movement, for which he [...]

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Author: Edited by Lynda Morris and Christopher Grunenberg, English, Monograph, Softcover, 285x235mm, full colour, 244pp, ISBN: 9781854378422,
Price: (ZA)R 500

Paula Rego, one of today’s leading figurative artists, was born in Portugal and studied at the Slade School of Art in London from 1952 to 1956. She took up permanent residence in England in 1976 but has never severed her Portuguese roots. This is the first monograph to deal exclusively with Rego’s graphic work: over [...]

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Author: TG Rosenthal, English, Monograph, Softcover, 300x240mm, full colour, 288pp, ISBN: 9780500284636,
Price: (ZA)R 495

The exhibition will be the first in Europe focusing on the great age of Mexican printmaking in the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1910 and 1920 the country was convulsed by the first socialist revolution, from which emerged a strong left-wing government that laid great stress on art as a vehicle for promoting [...]

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Author: Dawn Ades and Alison McClean, English, Art Theory/History, Softcover, 270x240mm, full colour, 192pp, ISBN: 9780714126708,
Price: (ZA)R 500

In October 2009 Alastair Whitton had a solo exhibition at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg. He also spent two full days with David Krut Print Workshop collaborator Lingo Rodriguez exploring an image for a screenprint edition. The work is entitled Van Diemen’s Land: The Book of Names. The process of screenprinting is one that Whitton [...]

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Author: Deborah Wye, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 200pp, 267 x 229mm, full colour, ISBN: 9780870707803,
Price: (ZA)R 500

The Drawings of Rembrandt – A New Study This sweeping overview of Rembrandt’s extraordinary achievement as a draughtsman fills a gap in the otherwise enormous literature on the artist. Beautifully illustrated, mostly in colour, the more than 150 drawings culled from a corpus of some 800 are discussed in detail. The drawings span Rembrandt’s entire [...]

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Author: Seymour Slive, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 264pp, ISBN: 9780500238677,
Price: (ZA)R 420

New lithographic stones were created by Deborah Bell at The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York, March 2010. They were created with Phil Sanders, who worked with DKW printers and artists in 2008. Look forward to seeing these prints available later on in the year. If interested please contact taryn@davidkrut.com

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This Printmaking Starter Library provides an overview of print and printmaking, both in South Africa and Internationally. It also includes books on prolific artists throughout history who have worked in this medium. a a William Kentridge Prints The Printmaking Bible Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood: How to Recognize Contemporary Artists’ Prints Printmaking: A complete guide to [...]

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