ART Flashcards by Ethan Adams | Brainscape

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QUESTION 1 - EMERGING ARTISTS

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Sekoto’s ‘Song of the Pick’

Pemba’s ‘Terror’

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QUESTION 2 - AFRICAN ARTISTS

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Skotnes’s ‘ The Conversation’

Battiss’s ‘African Fragments’

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QUESTION 3 - POLITICAL ART

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Catherine’s ‘Intensive Care’

Alexander’s ‘Butcher Boys’

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QUESTION 4 - ART, CRAFT…

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Hlungwani’s ‘The Altars’

Muafangejo’s ‘Judas Iscariot’

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QUESTION 5 - MULTIMEDIA

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Geer’s ‘The Terrorist’s Apprentice’

Kentridge’s ‘Johannesburg’

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QUESTION 7 - GENDER ISSUES

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Siopis’s ‘Slings and Arrows’

Brice’s ‘Sex Kitten Series’

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SONG OF THE PICK

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romantic realism
shows sekotos feelings
foreman (focal point)
yellow and light
diagonal picks
color use
lack of individuality
different clothing colors

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TERROR

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frantically running away
facial expressions
confronts viewer
focal point
white and innocence
police
shape
lack of detail

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THE CONVERSATION

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Human form combined with…
Captures spirit of Africa
Unnaturalistic human forms
Organic
Unusual and personal
Displays wooden blocks
Stand out
Colour and tone

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AFRICAN FRAGMENTS

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Depicts a large group
Graffito
Draws with paintbrush
Flat perspective, overlapping
Distortion
Western clothing
Attitude / body language

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INTENSIVE CARE

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Influenced by alternative American…
Barbed wire
Separated black and white
Applies to both
Sawn in half
Spotlight, suitcase
Restrained to bed
Bed, tin bucket

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THE BUTCHER BOYS

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Arises from the horror…
Features three figures
Covered genitals
Nudity, body position
Heads, beasts
Distorted face and mouth
Title
Paradoxically

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THE ALTARS

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New Jerusalem, ancient ground
Various sculptures, moving
Sold to galleries
Christ, God, aerial
Attachments
Three figures
Fish

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JUDAS ISCARIOT BETRAYED OUR LORD JESUS FOR R3.00

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Linocuts, colour, patterns
Bible and tribal stories
Struggle between good and evil
Lesson
The R3.00, local
Possessed by the devil
Left to right
Daggers

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THE TERRORIST’S APPRENTICE

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The matchstick, black room
Not made by Geers
Speaks of potential, irony
On its own it is safe
State of rest
Metaphor for…
Conceptual, idea is important
Left to ponder the endless…

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JOHANNESBURG, 2ND GREATEST CITY AFTER PARIS

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Animation, charcoal process drawings
Monochromatic, grimness
Easily altered
Drawing style
100th anniversary, dreams
Busy metropolis, Duke
Characters featured
Exploitation

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SLINGS AND ARROWS

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Wounded Deer
Deals with…
Pain / feminist issues / abuse
Expressionistic, pain
No background or depth
Lack of space
Allowing the paint to drip

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SEX KITTEN SERIES

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Penthouse magazine
Aesthetically pleasing
Interior details, replaced
STDs, health affected
‘Cheap, Cheap’
Identity
Exploitation, pressure