Is neither a painting nor American. It's William Kentridge's 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès, a group of short films, silent, that are both an homage to the early filmmaker Méliès (Voyage to the Moon, 1907) and a beautifully Kentridge-ian meditation on creation, loss, and whimsy.
The seven screens--which were up in MoMA's just-closed William Kentridge: Five Themes--include the artist's hallmark smudged and erased drawings, animated via stop-motion photography. Kentridge also incorporates himself in some of the films, moving forward and backward in vignettes without explicit narrative. (Other films employ ants as performers.) They are technically fascinating, moving, and even sweet.
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