A programme of Music, Visual Arts and Drama education
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Summary Artists and their artworks of Contemporary and Resistance South African Art
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A programme of Music, Visual Arts and Drama education
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This document is a short description about well known Contemporary and South African resistance Artists and their artworks. As well as relevant facts that can be used in Art essays/tests about the artists/artwork.
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COTEMPORARY SA (POST 1994)
Diane Victor: 1. Etching, aquatint, mezzotint,
Learning Posture and embossing
2. Comments on SA
contemporary events,
corruption, war and
violence
Mary Sibande: 1. Life-size Fiberglass
The Reign Mannequin on a life size
Fiberglass Stallion, also
using steel and cotton
2. Explores identity in a post-
colonial Africa
3. Sophie based on mum, gran,
great gran- she could study
wants to celebrate black
women
4. imagined narratives from
the maid Sophie
Kemang 1. Salvaged school desks,
Wa Lehulere: music stand, found
One is too many, a object, taxidermied
thousand will never be African grey parrot,
enough 2. sound installation
3. Reacts to history of SA
(Apartheid)
4. Cape town
5. Doesn’t allow
something to be a fixed
representation,reluctant
to let his artwork to be
interpreted in one way
, RESISTENCE ART (1976-1994)
themes
– the oppressors, also: interrogations or torture/ incarcerations/ prison conditions
Norman Catherine Oppressor: policeman
Dog of war comical,satrical big
teeth, snake out of
mouth
(untrustworthy)
Beastlike, brutality of
their behavior
– the oppressed
Pastel
Chain-past
traditions/history
Helen Life in SA
Sebidi township (chaotic)
The Child's Figurative and
Mother expressionistic
Holds the (African mask)
Sharp Side Simplified shapes,
of the Knife distorted
Rich and vibrant
scene
– state of the Apartheid government
Willie Bester the horse as an metaphor for
Trojan Horse 2 SA military; masquerading as a
peace-keeping operation, the
'hippos' armored vehicles
drove into the townships and
fired at random through the
windows, killing innocent
civilians.
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