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The Freedom Exhibition: Two Countries One Struggle, is a photomontage created by Spider Martin and Peter Magubane. It is located at the UAB, Abroms/Engel Institute for the Visual Arts. The artist works both contributed to a photojournalism about the American Segregation and South African Apartheid. This work also recognizes the 50th anniversary of the Voting Right Act (Adams). When you walk in the exhibit you will see many framed photographs the covers the walls; they will also be categorized. Existing conditions, Planning the movement, confrontation, and free at last are the four categories. Martin’s and Magubane’s Art work together shows unity. The social problem in their work beings the whole exhibit together. The variety of the different emotions in the photo speaks volume. The monochromatic color scheme or value in most of the photo. Even though black and white was the only color of chose, it makes the viewers focus on the real issue in …show more content…
These artist cover two separate events so we all can witnesses the history with them. There was snapshots from the effects of discrimination, to the peaceful protests and violent conflicts (Adams). Their ability to inform with in the setting stir up the audience emotions about the events happening. Hearing Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. voice makes the room more realistic. Building their audience emotions helps get their purpose across. In conclusion, the photomontage, The Freedom Exhibition: Two Countries One Struggle, created by Spider Martin and Peter Magubane is a photojournalism about the American Segregation and South African Apartheid. Martin’s and Magubane’s exhibit showed unity and variety in the social events they witnesses. They both communicated to us by show the different stage people in America and South Africa have to endure. These stages stirs up the audience feeling about this important history. These exhibit was a walk through
In book two, there is an image that represents a poster for the civil rights movement; it is drawn in traditional realism, using light crosshatching for shading. There are little to no lines around each person, in contrast to the artwork in the rest of the book that uses bold lines with shading like what one would see done with watercolors. On the actual poster, “come let us build a new world together” stretches across the feet of the protesters (see figure 7). Lewis states “That picture became probably the most popular poster of the movement” (Lewis and Aydin: Vol. 2, 120). I agree with him; the picture is important for the Civil Rights Movement. The protesters are kneeled peacefully, appearing almost as if in prayer. By drawing the image in a softer, realistic style, readers realize the importance of the image. Anytime Lewis recalls a news report on the tv, the artwork is changed to that pencil-like style. The changes in artistic styles were effective in leaving his audience with an impression of the importance specific images
Although the struggle for equal rights, food, welfare and survival were all central themes in both narratives, through this essay one could see how similar but at the same time distinctive the injustices for race relations were in South Africa’s apartheid regime and in the Jim Crow South’s segregation era were. The value for education, the struggle to survive and racism were all dominant faces that Anne Moody and Mark Mathabane faced on a day to day basis while growing up that shaped they their incredible lives with.
middle of paper ... ... He attempts to convince the public that discrimination has gone on for far too long and it is time for a change. As for the photo, it mainly uses the appeal of Pathos, but it does not lack in power. The image is simple but communicates a powerful image revolving around discrimination.
When first approaching this work, one feels immediately attracted to its sense of wonder and awe. The bright colors used in the sun draws a viewer in, but the astonishment, fascination, and emotion depicted in the expression on the young woman keeps them intrigued in the painting. It reaches out to those who have worked hard in their life and who look forward to a better future. Even a small event such as a song of a lark gives them hope that there will be a better tomorrow, a thought that can be seen though the countenance by this girl. Although just a collection of oils on a canvas, she is someone who reaches out to people and inspires them to appreciate the small things that, even if only for a short moment, can make the road ahead seem brighter.
The people of the black culture need a motivating force behind their community. They need a black aesthetic to motivate them and incline them to support the revolution. The black aesthetic itself will not be enough to motivate the people; they will need black art to help them understand what they are supporting. The art in the black culture needs an aesthetic to get the message across to its viewers and allow them to understand the meaning behind pieces of artwork. One of Ron Karenga’s points is how people need to respond positively to the artwork because it then shows that the artist got the main idea to the audience and helps to motivate them to support the revolution. In “Black Cultural Nationalism”, the author, Ron Karenga, argues that
The presentational aspect of the work of art works form. Form is never static, it is always forming and being formed ("forma informans"-- shaping form). Imagination takes on, spreads out and ove...
Art is a very important part of humanity’s history, and it can be found anywhere from the walls of caves to the halls of museums. The artists that created these works of art were influenced by a multitude of factors including personal issues, politics, and other art movements. Frida Kahlo and Vincent van Gogh, two wildly popular artists, have left behind artwork, that to this day, influences and fascinates people around the world. Their painting styles and personal lives are vastly different, but both artists managed to capture the emotions that they were feeling and used them to create artwork.
In the twentieth century alone, the world has witnessed oppression in many places, like the South African apartheid, which literally means “apartness” (Omond 11). Nadine Gordimer, an esteemed author and South African native, has lived to see the injustice and conflict her country has experienced during apartheid rule, which lasted just under a half-century. Most of her literary work throughout the decades of apartheid oppression united under the banner of freedom for the victims of apartheid. Her books speaking on the dangers and horrors of apartheid, as well as a call for its dismantling earned her a Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1991. One of her short stories, “Once upon a Time,” published in 1989, creatively depicted many issues that people both black and white face in apartheid South Africa. In a time where there was constant political struggle, internal turmoil, deadly riots, and harsh segregation and oppression in her country, Gordimer used this short story to depict the reality of these atrocities in the guise of a children’s story by communicating the dangers of self-destructive fear and oppression presented in the ironies of the aptly titled “Once upon a Time.”
Black art forms have historically always been an avenue for the voice; from spirituals to work songs to ballads, pieces of literature are one way that the black community has consistently been able to express their opinions and communicate to society at large. One was this has been achieved is through civil disobedience meeting civil manners. In this case, it would be just acknowledging an issue through art and literature. On the other hand, there is art with a direct purpose - literature meant to spur action; to convey anger and shock; or to prompt empathy, based on a discontent with the status quo. That is, protest literature. Through the marriage of the personal and political voices in black poetry and music, the genre functions as a form
Shirin Neshat, Faith Ringgold, and Zhang Hongtu are three of the many artists who capture the humanities of various societies and cultures in the world through their artwork. Those three artists had excellent pieces of art that all symbolized something different but connected them to the world and how society is portrayed: Neshat with her artwork called, “Rebellious Silence,” Ringgold with hers called, “God Bless America, 1964,” and finally, Hongtu’s work, “Bird’s Nest.” The three artworks all display a message of some sort to society, symbols, and even history behind it.
The natives of South Africa are crying for their beloved country. They see it is in trouble and they cry out to help it. They continue working and praying for the dawn of a new Africa. They hope for a dawn of "emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear" (312).
The primary concept is set on the idea of Nelson Mandela's principles, what Nelson Mandela stood for when he stated that ''Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” (ref), therefore the main theme is: Education, is it connecting the dots by enriching your people or is it causing separation. We use this particular trope, which is the Nelson Mandela Bridge, to show the correlation it has with Nelson Mandela ideals and principles of the rainbow nation (ref), on how the bridge can be seen as a symbol that should connect the one to the other. All the races in South Africa should in actual fact unify to create this picture of the rainbow nation, but because of what is currently happening in the State of South
James Matthews's short story "Azikwelwa" was first published in 1958. It was reprinted again in the year of the Mdantsane Bus Boycott (1974) in the collection The Park and Other Stories and then reappreared in the journal Grassroots in 1982. One of the questions we could ask ourselves after a first read could be about the role of South African literature at the time and especially when it is concerned with political and racial questions. On one hand, we could affirm that in "Azikwelwa", we have an example of literature used as a particular form of political and social propaganda. On the other, the realistic and fictional facets of the text are rather well-balanced which could bring out questions about the kind of literature we are dealing with. It is on this issue that we will base our discussion in the first part of the present commentary. On the second place, it seems essential to examine the reprsentation of South African society in the short story. Society as depict...
“Long Walk to Freedom”, is an autobiography (published in 1944) written by former South African president, politician, and modern hero, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. This inspiring, kindling, and motivating book is undoubtedly a must read, giving an overall lesson of never giving up no matter how many times you have to fail before you succeed. This book takes you through his journeys, struggles and triumphs from childhood to adulthood. It takes you firsthand through Mandela’s 27 years in jail for armed opposition, his conquering of the African National Congress, the becoming of South Africa’s first black president, the defeat of apartheid, and his achievements such as winning the Noble Peace Prize a year before and later countless other awards. Mandela actually wrote this book during his 27-year imprisonment beginning in 1975. We are given a detailed description on also how he became politically active in 1918 going forward. Mandela’s story is truly a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. If there’s one thing you may grasp about him from this book it is his perseverance and ambition. He is admired by many as a patient and audacious but tranquilient man who fought for human rights and against racial oppression.
In 1948 Gavin Jantjies created ‘A South African Colouring Book’ to emphasis how everything in South Africa was catagorised by colour. This colouring book as an example of protest art, gave the world insight into how everyone was divided based on colour and was thus socially effective.