George Pemba, New Brighton Port Elizabeth Flashcards
Colour
- Complementary colours bring brightness & balance
- Cold colours create somber setting contrasted by vibrancy and happiness of people in warm colours to soften harshness of reality
Line & perspective
Diagonal lines move to horizon creating linear perspective
Parallel lines move to horizon
Subject matter
Clean township depicting community through pembas eyes.
Community cares for area despite contrasting apartheid stereotype. Community seen busy & vibrant even though they are lacking
Movements
- Realism : depicts his surroundings in SA in a non romantic style.
- Impressionism : Summarised painting according to what he saw and experienced
- Expression : uses form, tone & colour to add to feeling
Tone
Adds depths and shadow on 2 D surface
Uses highlight in white shirts to create clear light source & add to crispness
Texture
Matted & wrinkled seen in figures clothes
Space
Stretches artwork to invite viewer
Shape & form
- Implied form on 2D surface created by value & colour
- Solid forms through simplified planes.
Style
Naturalistic style as he focused more on bigger picture than the detail
George Pemba themes
Joy, everyday life, political subject etc.
Work gave interesting view of changes in SA.
His work creates feeling of togetherness between people - society that stands together although suffering
Stylistic characterisrics
Expressionistic & naturalistic
1. Distortion
2. Unusual perspective
3. Round & solid shapes
4. Subjective colours
Township art
Works of black artists that expressed township life in SA
Composition
Taken up by street, homes & people in foreground
Focal point
Same as composition
Movement
Simplified figures with Diagonal lines giving sense of movement
