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Wednesday 6 April 2016
SOUTH AFRICAN
SOUTH AFRICAN
South Africa art form began to emerge at the end of the 18th Century focusing on the landscape and the people forged not only by the quality of light, but also by the crucible of history. There has been an ancient art heritage in the sub-region which can still be viewed and enjoyed in the natural galleries that have survived in the various mountain ranges in the country. While this tradition has had its influence on various artists, it is the English and Dutch painting traditions that have had a greater impact on artistic style. New global ideas and new themes have always found their followers in local artists. Many of the styles overlap and represent a fusion of cultural movements and an acceptance of a divergence of material culture. But within these movements and trends, South African artists have provided art with South African subject matter and character. South African art has always taken on the unique flavor of the country, from the 4 000-year-old cave paintings of the San Bushmen which is the richest collection of rock art.http://www.bestfamousart.com/
SOUTH AFRICAN ART
The San Bushmen, Africa's
oldest hunter-gatherers, lived in the massive Drakensberg range of mountains
from 4 000 years ago. Over that time, they created a vast body of art on the walls
of caves and rock shelters which is the largest and most concentrated group of
rock paintings in sub-Saharan Africa. This painting represents the spiritual
life of the San people and is outstanding both in quality and diversity of
subject.
Colonial era
During the early
colonial era, white South African artists tended to concentrate on what they
saw as a "new world". Artists of that time such as Thomas Baines
travelled the country recording its flora, fauna, people and landscapes. At the
end of the 19th century, painters at that time began to establish a locally
rooted art.
'Elephants Charging over Quartos Country' by Thomas Baines (1820-1875)
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Art of 20th century
By the 1930s, two women artists, Maggie Laubscher and Irma Stern, brought the techniques and sensibilities of post-impressionism and expressionism to South African art. Their bold color and composition, and highly personal point of view, rather scandalized those with old-fashioned concepts of acceptable art. The years (1948-1994) witnessed a great diversity in South African art ranging from landscape painting to abstract art.
HISTORY
Art of 20th century
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By the 1930s, two women artists, Maggie Laubscher and Irma Stern, brought the techniques and sensibilities of post-impressionism and expressionism to South African art. Their bold color and composition, and highly personal point of view, rather scandalized those with old-fashioned concepts of acceptable art. The years (1948-1994) witnessed a great diversity in South African art ranging from landscape painting to abstract art.
An Extensive View of Farmlands by JH Pierneef (1886-1957)
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Artists found different ways of interacting with the visual stimuli of Africa. Alexis Preller created fantastically detailed canvases influenced by the European surrealists of the 1920s and 1930s. Beginning in the late 1940s, Preller painted African scenes and themes such as The Kraal and Hieratic Women, but these were not realistic portraits of African life.
This detail of a mural by Walter Battiss
Black artists of Africa
Song of the Pick (1947) by Gerard Sekoto (1913-1993)
By contrast, black artists concentrated on depicting their realities and environments in a direct, though forcefully expressionist, manner.
From the 1930s onward, Sekoto portrayed urban African life in places. George Pemba stayed in the township of Motherwell near Port Elizabeth, living into his 90s His often styled work focused on the simple lives of poor black people, humbly and sometimes humorously evincing their fundamental humanity, though he also treated themes such as the story of the Xhosa prophetess Nongqawuse of the 19th century. Black artists began to give voice to a political sensibility that left behind the realist depiction of township life.
Art in 1970s and 1980s
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The Conservationists Ball (1985) by William Kentridge
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As the apartheid state any artists faced the harsh realities of South African life in the early 1980s, Paul Stopforth made a series of works dealing with police torture in paintings, lithographs and sculpture, Norman Catherine developed the playful sensibilities into a disturbing private menagerie of threatening and threatened theriomorphs and larger-than-life human figures. William Kentridge used expressionist drawings and highly developed personal metaphors, symbols and characters to expose the hypocrisies and ironies of white South African life. In the 1980s, art was increasingly recognized as a genre of expression directed at the white elite's oppressive exercise of power.
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By the 1930s, two women artists, Maggie Laubscher and Irma Stern, brought the techniques and sensibilities of post-impressionism and expressionism to South African art. Their bold color and composition, and highly personal point of view, rather scandalized those with old-fashioned concepts of acceptable art. The years (1948-1994) witnessed a great diversity in South African art ranging from landscape painting to abstract art.
An Extensive View of Farmlands by JH Pierneef (1886-1957)
http://www.bestfamousart.com/
Artists found different ways of interacting with the visual stimuli of Africa. Alexis Preller created fantastically detailed canvases influenced by the European surrealists of the 1920s and 1930s. Beginning in the late 1940s, Preller painted African scenes and themes such as The Kraal and Hieratic Women, but these were not realistic portraits of African life.
This detail of a mural by Walter Battiss
Black artists of Africa
Song of the Pick (1947) by Gerard Sekoto (1913-1993)
By contrast, black artists concentrated on depicting their realities and environments in a direct, though forcefully expressionist, manner.
From the 1930s onward, Sekoto portrayed urban African life in places. George Pemba stayed in the township of Motherwell near Port Elizabeth, living into his 90s His often styled work focused on the simple lives of poor black people, humbly and sometimes humorously evincing their fundamental humanity, though he also treated themes such as the story of the Xhosa prophetess Nongqawuse of the 19th century. Black artists began to give voice to a political sensibility that left behind the realist depiction of township life.
Art in 1970s and 1980s
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The Conservationists Ball (1985) by William Kentridge
http://www.bestfamousart.com/
As the apartheid state any artists faced the harsh realities of South African life in the early 1980s, Paul Stopforth made a series of works dealing with police torture in paintings, lithographs and sculpture, Norman Catherine developed the playful sensibilities into a disturbing private menagerie of threatening and threatened theriomorphs and larger-than-life human figures. William Kentridge used expressionist drawings and highly developed personal metaphors, symbols and characters to expose the hypocrisies and ironies of white South African life. In the 1980s, art was increasingly recognized as a genre of expression directed at the white elite's oppressive exercise of power.
Monday 14 March 2016
south africa
1 .South Africa art form began to emerge at the end of the 18th Century focusing on the landscape and the people forged not only by the quality of light, but also by the crucible of history. There has been an ancient art heritage in the sub-region which can still be viewed and enjoyed in the natural galleries that have survived in the various mountain ranges in the country. While this tradition has had its influence on various artists, it is the English and Dutch painting traditions that have had a greater impact on artistic style. New global ideas and new themes have always found their followers in local artists. Many of the styles overlap and represent a fusion of cultural movements and an acceptance of a divergence of material culture. But within these movements and trends, South African artists have provided art with South African subject matter and character. South African art has always taken on the unique flavor of the country, from the 4 000-year-old cave paintings of the San Bushmen which is the richest collection of rock art.
2 .San Bushman rock painting in the Drakensberg range of mountains.
The San Bushmen, Africa's oldest hunter-gatherers, lived in the massive Drakensberg range of mountains from 4 000 years ago. Over that time, they created a vast body of art on the walls of caves and rock shelters which is the largest and most concentrated group of rock paintings in sub-Saharan Africa. This painting represents the spiritual life of the San people and is outstanding both in quality and diversity of subject.
3 .During the early colonial era, white South African artists tended to concentrate on what they saw as a "new world". Artists of that time such as Thomas Baines travelled the country recording its flora, fauna, people and landscapes. At the end of the 19th century, painters at that time began to establish a locally rooted art.
4 . SOUTH AFRICAN ART
South Africa art form began to emerge at the end of the 18th Century focusing on the landscape and the people forged not only by the quality of light, but also by the crucible of history. There has been an ancient art heritage in the sub-region which can still be viewed and enjoyed in the natural galleries that have survived in the various mountain ranges in the country. While this tradition has had its influence on various artists, it is the English and Dutch painting traditions that have had a greater impact on artistic style. New global ideas and new themes have always found their followers in local artists. Many of the styles overlap and represent a fusion of cultural movements and an acceptance of a divergence of material culture. But within these movements and trends, South African artists have provided art with South African subject matter and character. South African art has always taken on the unique flavor of the country, from the 4 000-year-old cave paintings of the San Bushmen which is the richest collection of rock art.
San Bushman rock painting in the Drakensberg range of mountains.
The San Bushmen, Africa's oldest hunter-gatherers, lived in the massive Drakensberg range of mountains from 4 000 years ago. Over that time, they created a vast body of art on the walls of caves and rock shelters which is the largest and most concentrated group of rock paintings in sub-Saharan Africa. This painting represents the spiritual life of the San people and is outstanding both in quality and diversity of subject.
Colonial era
During the early colonial era, white South African artists tended to concentrate on what they saw as a "new world". Artists of that time such as Thomas Baines travelled the country recording its flora, fauna, people and landscapes. At the end of the 19th century, painters at that time began to establish a locally rooted art.
'Elephants Charging over Quartos Country' by Thomas Baines (1820-1875)
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