Eviction, George Pemba Flashcards
Subject matter
Woman with child in middle of landscape with house as she sits with possessions
Style
Figurative with expressionistic characteristics
Medium & technique
Oil
Definite brushstrokes
Focal point in composition
Woman with baby
Perspective
Winding Road leads eye to houses at top
Small houses in back against larger figure & objects in front
Distortion
Perspective of house on left is exaggerated
Shapes & function
Sharp shapes like furniture
Create unhappy feeling
Colour
Life like except exaggerated orange sky
Brushstrokes
Clearly seen & speak of emotion
Message
Woman forced to leave her home and sits in meager possessions holding baby unsure journey she must make (symbolized by long and Winding road).
Typical south African story tells history of forced removals & how poor must suffer