Lillian Gray Art and Art History

Lillian Gray Art and Art History

Lillian Gray is a renowned South African fine artist. She is best known for her large, bold and expressive portraits. Her colourful work attracts the attention of connoisseurs and novices alike and leaves an indelible impression on those who appreciate beauty.

Lillian is also the owner of the Lillian Gray Fine Arts School leading a team of art teachers to inspire students. As a teacher Lillian is known as the story-letting artist, always engaging the students with fun art history stories. Lillian believes art should be accessible to all and believes that art skills should be taught in an easy-to-understand way. #lilliangrayart #artlessons #artclasses


To reach the Art School email [email protected]
To reach Lillian personally email [email protected]

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  • @marilyndionedesenaleal5309
    @marilyndionedesenaleal53092 күн бұрын

    Maravilhoso!

  • @wanda6060
    @wanda606015 күн бұрын

    Skibidi toilet 🎀🔥🎀🔥🎀🔥🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🫧🍑🍑🍑

  • @thisperson6219
    @thisperson621922 күн бұрын

    Please make more videos like this on artists that highschoolers are writing their exams on❤ you do it so well, and we as students barely have resources in art. This is so helpful, I'm sure the channel will grow! It's kind of like the Miss Angler, but for visual arts

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt22 күн бұрын

    Thank you. Let me know who else you need a video on.

  • @thisperson6219
    @thisperson621921 күн бұрын

    @LillianGrayArt oh wow! There's a LIST. So far: Dada artists - arp, schwitters, Duchamp Surrealism - Dali, Rothko, Magritte, Ernst, Khalo Abstract expressionism - Pollock, de kooning, Rothko Pop art - Warhol, Oldenburg, Hamilton, lichtenstein Minimalism - Judd Op & kinetic art - Riley, Calder Conceptual art 1970 & current non-traditional art (beuys, burden, Christo & Claude, Smithson, Chicago, hirst, Oppenheim, accondi) South African resistance art (stopforth, van Wyk, Murray, Catherine, Alexander, bester, zylla) South African contemporary art (Jan van de merwe, Penelope siopis, Churchill madikada) I tried to exclude the ones you already have, but I might've missed a few💖 these are just a few in the matric syllabus as well. It'll help a lot of us out

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt21 күн бұрын

    @@thisperson6219 Yes, we have a video on Willie Bester. He is incredible and deals with shocking real-life issues. I am currently busy with Keith Haring and some other international artists since they up the algorithm for the channel way more. (Amount of Views) But I realise gathering info on SA artist is near impossible and what is needed most.

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt21 күн бұрын

    BTW I adore Alexander but I do think KZread will sensor most of her art. But I can just blurr the shocking bits.

  • @JonathanSpengler-uy7ng
    @JonathanSpengler-uy7ng26 күн бұрын

    Thank you very much. He had a dream and never gave up. He carried the photo with him and planned that important work.

  • @shallanhaider4385
    @shallanhaider4385Ай бұрын

    In urdu plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • @SusanCrocenzi
    @SusanCrocenziАй бұрын

    This is wonderful! Thank you!

  • @HermanStoltz-br8kl
    @HermanStoltz-br8klАй бұрын

    Dit help my Vir eksamen in gr7 .Ek Moet eksamen op die 23mei2024😊❤

  • @AneliseTaljaard
    @AneliseTaljaardАй бұрын

    Wow, thank you for this great video. There is so much that was hidden from us growing up in that time.

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArtАй бұрын

    Yes, people don't realise how censored South Africa was and how much control the government exerted over the media.

  • @AneliseTaljaard
    @AneliseTaljaardАй бұрын

    How insightful Lillian. Thank you for taking the time to educate us on these important topics.

  • @eliwatts6908
    @eliwatts6908Ай бұрын

    Masterful.

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArtАй бұрын

    Thank you so much

  • @antshield
    @antshieldАй бұрын

    Just found your channel. Loved this video! What an amazing artist! 🟥 🟦 ⬜️ 🟨

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArtАй бұрын

    Thank you

  • @philippahobbs3087
    @philippahobbs3087Ай бұрын

    My second request to stop your unlawful use of my photographs or those commissioned by me. Kindly refer to the copyright act.

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArtАй бұрын

    The purpose of these videos has always been to provide free education to all the high school kids in South Africa and create awareness of talented South African Artists. The goal has never been to make money. Monotasation on these videos has been switched off. All the sources are listed and credited on our blog posts. Our Blog is also not monetised. You are referenced propperly.

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArtАй бұрын

    Resources Allina Ndebele: Weaver-designer. 1985. Exhibition catalogue for ‘Tapestries by Allina Ndebele’, 6 November-6 December 1985. Pretoria: Pretoria Art Museum. Berglund, A-I. 1989. Zulu thought patterns and symbolism, revised edition. London: Hurst and Company. Biyela, N.G. 2009. Popular predictor birds in Zulu culture. Hobbs, P. 2004. Shifting paradigms in printmaking practice at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift, 1962-1976. MA thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Hobbs, P. and N. Leibhammer. 2004. Allina Ndebele and the increasing picture. In Veterans of KwaZulu-Natal, ed. J. Addleson. [CD Rom]. Durban: Durban Art Gallery. Hobbs, P. and N. Leibhammer. 2011. Water and space: Unravelling meaning in the weavings of Allina Ndebele. de arte 83:5-20. Hobbs, P. and E. Rankin. 2003. Rorke’s Drift: Empowering prints. Cape Town: Double Storey Books. Hofmeyr, I. 1993. ‘We spend our years as a tale that is told’: Oral historical narrative in a South African chiefdom. Portsmouth: Heinemann; Johannesburg: Wits University Press; London: Currey. Ndebele, A. n.d. The Tree of Life: Tapestry story. Transcribed by Nokuthulo Ndebele. Caja Stort files, Eshowe. Ndebele, A. 2013. Personal interview with the author, 15 December, Swart Umfolozi. Ndebele, A. 2013/14. Telephonic interviews with the author, 15 December-20 April, Swart Umfolozi. Roberts, A. 1969. Birds of South Africa. Revised edition, seventh impression. Cape Town: Trustees of the South African Bird Book Fund. Tree of Life. 1965. Isihlahla Sempilo 1(September/ October):1. Philippa Hobbs files, Johannesburg. Zulu, B.S. 2002. From the lüneburger heide to northern Zululand: A history of the encounter between the settlers, the Hermannsburg missionaries, the amakhosi and their people, with special reference to four mission stations in northern Zululand (1860-1913). MT thesis, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/bitstream/ handle/11250/161941/Zulu_mthesis_2002. pdf?sequence=1 (accessed 10 January 2014).

  • @jaquelinehummingbirdcryste5373
    @jaquelinehummingbirdcryste5373Ай бұрын

    The audio was lost just as they were showing the animation.

  • @erinprindle2648
    @erinprindle2648Ай бұрын

    Love the video. However, it awkwardly looses audio around 6:50 and picks back up around 7:40.

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArtАй бұрын

    Unfortunately that piece of music was muted by KZread due to copyright

  • @StutiJaiswal-on7zj
    @StutiJaiswal-on7zj2 ай бұрын

    Thank you ! This was so helpful for me ❤

  • @veronikadvoroznakova4452
    @veronikadvoroznakova44522 ай бұрын

    Thank you 🔝🤗

  • @hermes537
    @hermes5372 ай бұрын

    I found a print of his in Cape Town today!

  • @applepretz5368
    @applepretz53682 ай бұрын

    She's a racist, No thanks.

  • @shamgardinowill2247
    @shamgardinowill22472 ай бұрын

    We love you, Lillian!!! 💕💕❤❤👌 I've learnt so much. Thank u for shedding so much light on modern art style💖💖🥲

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArtАй бұрын

    Thank you

  • @BlazingRaven
    @BlazingRaven3 ай бұрын

    dankie!! dit help soooo baie!!!!!

  • @SantaLorena
    @SantaLorena3 ай бұрын

    I'm surprised you didn't go further and mention the resurgence of his style in the 1960s as a result of the Mondrian-inspired dress by Yves Saint Laurent that sparked the interest of a new generation.

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt3 ай бұрын

    Haha. I am so passionate about art history that my videos could be an hour long. I cut this video down from 30 mins. I do have an image of that dress in the video.

  • @SantaLorena
    @SantaLorena3 ай бұрын

    @@LillianGrayArt Don't get me wrong. I loved it. Thank you for an informative and fun video.

  • @rafiqhaq
    @rafiqhaq3 ай бұрын

    Love your videos. Over in the UK they pronounce chiaroscuro as key-ar-roh-scure-roh.

  • @zaltar6957
    @zaltar69573 ай бұрын

    #matric2024 writing in like 1 hour☺️🙏

  • @davidvandersterre
    @davidvandersterre3 ай бұрын

    I'm curious about the blackness and whiteness in the paintings. Are they just meant to depict areas and emptiness? I mean many people who "paint" (or draw) a Mondrian-style painting just squabble some straight lines and do so without much thought behind it, and then they fill some squares with the colors. But if you dig a little deeper you understand that there is actual thought behind the paintings. But I can't quite wrap around the meaning of white and black (and gray).

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt3 ай бұрын

    Great question. As far as I know Mondrian likened the black lines to a skeleton. The way muscles hang on bone structure the colour blocks anchor themselves on the black lines. So the black lines is the structure of the work. Now, where he placed these black lines exactly is complex with a lot of theory and math behind it. He placed the lines to create rhythm, balance, harmony and even disharmony. A New York curator recalled Mondrian working. She said he spent hours moving and tweaking the placement of the lines, sometimes even days. Once tape was invented he could move the lines around and tweak them before painting them. At the end of his career he left some tape on the canvas. In his final artworks the harsh black lines started bothering him and he broke them up into tiny coloured squares as well. Also using tiny ripped pieces of tape. The white squares is often used to balance a work, create breathing space or add to the rhythm of the work. So yes the lines and white squares are done with a lot of consideration and thought and quite deliberately placed by him.

  • @davidvandersterre
    @davidvandersterre3 ай бұрын

    @LillianGrayArt I made a Mondrian-style map in a tower defense game (bloons tower defense 6), and used the victory screen as a base to determine the colored areas. So not really much beeper thought went into it further than: "the victory screen has these colors up here, and this part is mostly blue, so that'll be blue". But alas, it's a game. I'd be surprised if anyone who will play the map will even notice that the map is meant to look like an abstract version of the victory screen. I'm planning on making more of those maps. An entire series of maps, in just his style. And I'm planning on using his method, too. So that was why I asked about the black and white (and -now that I think about it- grey). If I understood correctly the colors are either meant to depict something in a very abstract manner -f.e. yellow is happiness and red is rage- or they are meant to depict the very base of the most eye-catching things in sight. Imagine when you have a picture of a red car in a garage with something that gets noticed quickly, let's say robot arms, the car would be a red rectangle with blue at the spots of the robot arms. And probably with some white in-between. So basically the second explanation is a picture overly simplified with only the main subject(s) in sight and the rest (irrelevant "noise") in the picture is either white or black. By the way if you're curious the map is simply called "Mondrian 1" and is available in the content browser of the game. I had to determine the title for the map, and of course I wanted to allow people to find it easily. "De Stijl" (or even the English version "The Style") would probably be too confusing for most people (because pretty much no gamer is artistically educated nowadays). "Piet Mondrian" is a little long of a title and I'm not even sure people knew his lordly was Piet. And whenever people talk about his paintings, you always just hear "it's a Mondrian". So that's probably the most simple I could've gone (true Mondrian-style 😏).

  • @user-ez4sm5kl9y
    @user-ez4sm5kl9y4 ай бұрын

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  • @muaoilk1903
    @muaoilk19034 ай бұрын

    This video was really helpful, thanks! I was wondering if you've done a video on Kentridge's work post 1994 as well, as I can't seem to find anything.

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt4 ай бұрын

    I've written the script but haven't made the video yet. When do you need it?

  • @aminatabawoh
    @aminatabawoh4 ай бұрын

    Firstly I want you to teach me what creative practical art meaning for primary school

  • @JayJay-wg5ex
    @JayJay-wg5ex4 ай бұрын

    Using this for homeschooling thanks!

  • @woolee8504
    @woolee85044 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much. This was very enjoyable.

  • @elizabethcox9381
    @elizabethcox93815 ай бұрын

    Great video..very clear. I am inspired thank you.

  • @dianenicholl6195
    @dianenicholl61955 ай бұрын

    Great video. Thanks I’m Just starting out with oil pastels your i of is so helpful

  • @jorgelwiz7193
    @jorgelwiz71936 ай бұрын

    I have done several jobs, I never took a course, everything I do is by my own attempt

  • @jorgelwiz7193
    @jorgelwiz71936 ай бұрын

    I discovered your channel recently, I loved your presentation on Impressionism in oil pastels, I have been using this technique and also acrylic paint. Unfortunately in my country, Brazil, painting materials are very expensive. marathoning your videos. I loved

  • @baffledbrandon3132
    @baffledbrandon31326 ай бұрын

    NEVER EVER draw from your wrist. ALWAYS draw from your shoulder/elbow.

  • @kimranson4775
    @kimranson47756 ай бұрын

    ❤❤

  • @Rainingqueen96
    @Rainingqueen967 ай бұрын

    Impressive may His Grace abound👌🙏

  • @jaganakhasdorj
    @jaganakhasdorj7 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing, enjoyed these

  • @JUST_A_DUD3
    @JUST_A_DUD37 ай бұрын

    👇Bet that this comment can’t get 10k likes.

  • @JUST_A_DUD3
    @JUST_A_DUD37 ай бұрын

    👍

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt7 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @urbansonswart9689
    @urbansonswart96897 ай бұрын

    BAIE DANKIE

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt7 ай бұрын

    Plesier. Geniet dit.

  • @urbansonswart9689
    @urbansonswart96897 ай бұрын

    BAIE DANKIE

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt7 ай бұрын

    Plesier

  • @user-wb8vh3rj8m
    @user-wb8vh3rj8m7 ай бұрын

    Incredible! I went to do a paint night at Lillian Gray and let me tell You, I am humbled and I have a completely new respect for art and artists 😊

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt7 ай бұрын

    That is awesome! Hope to see you at our studio again soon.

  • @lavanyamoodley4299
    @lavanyamoodley42997 ай бұрын

    Wowza!! This is such an in depth video of Allina Ndebele. I absolutely love you break down the concepts and visualize it through these amazing depictions... This 100% helped me remember key details for my IEB Matric final exams for Visual Arts! Thank you for all the time and effort that you put into these videos!

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt7 ай бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @danemorris9036
    @danemorris90367 ай бұрын

    Incredible artistic process and talent!

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt7 ай бұрын

    Thank you. I wish we had more Zulu Folklore stories.

  • @mandyteixeira1279
    @mandyteixeira12797 ай бұрын

    So talented I always get inspired wish I lived closer to Send my kids

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt7 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the kind words.

  • @Xman_Taurus
    @Xman_Taurus7 ай бұрын

    Its always an honor to see celebrations of South african artists.

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt7 ай бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @mona231006
    @mona2310067 ай бұрын

    Always love learning something new about other artists!

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt7 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much.

  • @adellejansenvanrensburg9933
    @adellejansenvanrensburg99337 ай бұрын

    This was so fun to watch with my daughter! We understand modern art a bit more now thank you!

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt7 ай бұрын

    I'm so glad!

  • @KeyDyer
    @KeyDyer8 ай бұрын

    Great video! He actually got the word OBEY from the John carpenter movie “They Live” - when roddy piper puts on the sunglasses , he sees that all advertisements and newspapers all say OBEY, or CONSUME, etc.

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt7 ай бұрын

    Thanks so much for sharing this tidbit of information. Super interesting.

  • @jesinix9466
    @jesinix94668 ай бұрын

    Lillian, Thanks much for sharing the informative video about the Ndebele tribe AND Esther Mahlangu. I had the honor & pleasure of meeting her personally at JazzFest- a music festival held yearly in New Orleans, La. Yes! She was invited along with a delegation of singers & artists from South Africa. I sat in her tent for several hours and watched in amazement & awe as she painted with a wooden stick (not a paint brush) mind you! Although I did not speak in her native tongue, she saw from my facial expression the pleasure, appreciation, gratitude and admiration of me watching her paint. It was such a magical & enjoyable experience that I will NEVER forget. Thanks again for bringing the Ndebele tribe & her work of art to light! 🙌🏾👏🏾 🫶🏾 👍🏽 👏🏾

  • @LillianGrayArt
    @LillianGrayArt8 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this beautiful memory.