19th February 2021

Theme 1: SA Artists influenced by African or Indigenous Art Forms

What were the African/Indigenous cultures did not follow Western

influence of rules/history of idealization & reality
African/
Indigenous Art African/Indigenous cultures created figures that were
on Western Art? symbolic in form

What 3 aspects
African/Indigenous was seen at RADICAL – it broke
of African/ restrictive Western art traditions
Indigenous Art
influenced INDIGENOUS AFRICAN SCULPTURE – Liberated Western Art
Western Art? from traditional methods of naturalism and perspective
SAN ROCK ART – pictographs represented the first art
How did African/
created by people
Indigenous Art
Influence SA ISINDEBELE MURALS – designs of patterns
Artists?
00
Preller – influenced by traditional African rituals, sculptures
and Ndebele beadwork
Skotnes – influenced by wood carvings of African Art
Villa – influenced by forms of African Masks
Kumalo – influenced by traditional African wood sculptures
Sebidi – influenced by the themes & symbolism of
traditional township life
Oltmann – influence by South African basket wearing

Summary

The influence of cultures different to, or outside of the mainstream culture of artists from
Western Europe, is an important part of the development of Modern Art.

Cornell Notes | SUMMARY OF TOPIC 3 - LESSON 1 | Grade 12 Visual Arts | Visual Culture Studies | Term 1 | Theme 1 – South African artists
influenced by African or Indigenous Art Forms | Chapter 2 | Page 55 - 73

Helps us understand choices artists make in translating the natural

VISUALARTSEDUCATOR | ©2021 Melissa Marjorie Lovis Barnes [H.D.E. - Fine Art; BEd (Hons); MEd] Subject Head, NFHS
world onto 2D and 3D surfaces;