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Critically discuss TWO (2) artworks of your choice from the Italian Renaissance art period. Explain how you can identify and understand the development of Classicism and Humanist ideology during this art historical movement. In your answer you should refer to the social and political context of the Renaissance period. In an essay, discuss John Berger (1972), Lynda Nead’s (1990) ideas on the female nude with reference to the two artworks by Berni Searle (Figure 1) and Suzanne Valadon (Figure...

The outbreak of Covid-19 has had an immense impact on the entire globe. The pandemic has not only exacerbated social inequalities but has also thrown global economies into disarray. In addition, in South Africa, it also made gaps and deficiencies in the education system quite glaring. It brought about a need to rethink education to ensure that the current generation of students are adequately prepared for the irreversible changes brought by the pandemic. Using the above as a starting point th...

The way that landscape is depicted in art, but also in visual culture is telling about the ways in which people see and experience space, place and nature, but also culture, belonging and ownership. In South Africa these have always been contested concepts, that are constantly being re-negotiated through depiction of the South African landscape. By watching the two videos; South African Tourism| #LIVEAGAIN FILM (2011) and South Africa Travelogue: Kimberly Diamond Mines & Gold Mines (1940), th...

In this essay the terms space, place, and ideology were defined. The chosen commercial place for this essay was the Eiffel Tower. With reference to the Eiffel Tower, aspects like space and place, the gendering of space, and liminal spaces were discussed.

Nikos Papastergiades (2005) said the following, for example: Unresolved concerns about authenticity serve as a backdrop to the debate over the conceptual and political framework of hybridity. The "anxiety" around authenticity and art from Africa and its diaspora were discussed by citing the works of one (1) African modernist and one (1) African contemporary artist. This essay also commented on how the concepts of "hybridity" and "diaspora" are viewed in relation to African art, as a fi...

By selectin one informal art centre, The Polly Street Art Centre, this essay went in detail with reference to two black artists who received training there during the apartheid years. With reference to two artworks by each artist, different themes, styles and media explored at the training centre were considered and discussed. Another discussion were followed by whether this training approach promoted creativity among black artists or simply reinforced white hegemony.

Rubin’s chronology discusses the formation of Cubism taking into account the influence of Paul Cézanne and the contributions of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. This essay critically discusses how Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (circa 1907, left unfinished) by Picasso fits into and subverts the development of early Cubism.

This essay discusses the social, political and cultural shifts in Afrikaner nationalist ideology in the 20th century and it explains how these changes were reflected in the canon of Afrikaner nationalist art. Furthermore, the question will be answered by comparing one relevant artwork created during the 1930s, 1940s or 1950s with one made during the 1960s or 1970s.

With one South African photojournalistic or documentary photograph selected, this essay discussed in detail the photograph using a mise-en-scène analysis and a genre analysis. Then, using the mise-en-scène analysis this essay explained why the chosen photograph reflected or responded to apartheid ideology.

This essay discussed the different themes of Visual Culture. In the analysis of this essay Roland Barthes' three levels of signification was defined and explained. With reference to and advertisement that reflects the gender and/or racial stereotypes Roland Barthes' three levels of significance was further explained and discussed.