Eviction, George Pemba Flashcards

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Subject matter

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Woman with child in middle of landscape with house as she sits with possessions

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Style

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Figurative with expressionistic characteristics

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Medium & technique

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Oil
Definite brushstrokes

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Focal point in composition

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Woman with baby

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Perspective

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Winding Road leads eye to houses at top
Small houses in back against larger figure & objects in front

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Distortion

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Perspective of house on left is exaggerated

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Shapes & function

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Sharp shapes like furniture
Create unhappy feeling

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Colour

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Life like except exaggerated orange sky

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Brushstrokes

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Clearly seen & speak of emotion

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Message

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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

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