ART Flashcards
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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
