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… a response to the demand of Black students who wanted an art education in the city centre of Durban. Its premise was … Abangani Art Centre, Durban …

… Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern Limpopo, Johannes Maswanganyi, similarly, had no institutional art training; his father taught him to carve traditional and … was confused by the demands and practices of the urban art market, Maswanganyi took these on and became his own …

… Paper by Jack Simons on wars of resistance. Covers the Khoikhoi and San resistance, the Xhosa wars against dispossession, the Zulu … Wars of resistance …

… "For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my … sent him to a boarding school in Pretoria. There were no art classes, but there were pens, pencils and paper material … of a new attitude towards the arts, one which permeated resistance culture for the next decade and a half. In 1979, …

… of sunsets in the Karoo. Her work satisfied a demand for rural scenes and paintings of animals, and she sold well. … SADC, Drill Hall, Darling St., fm. 2 Nov. 1917: SASA Art Exh.,MH, City Hall, Darling St., 7 Feb. 1918: SASA Art Exh., MH, City Hall, Darling St., 6 Feb. 1919: SASA …

… Overt socio-political protest in South African art, as I have suggested, first made a substantial … appearance, in 1971, at the national and biennial Art South Africa Today exhibition in the Durban Art Gallery (17 August - 6 September). An unprecedented … Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of …

… South African National Art Gallery. Source: www.sa-venues.com This Gallery is … holdings of South African, African and Western European Art. The richness of the Foreign Collection is almost … Collection contains particularly fine examples of British Art and many leading Artists of the early 20th Century are …

… The Michaelis School of Fine Art, the namesake of the Fine Art Department of the University of Cape Town , is located on … 1925 after Sir Michaelis’ endowment of the chair of Fine Art in 1920.  In addition to his patronage of the oldest Fine … Michaelis School of Fine Art …

… KwaZulu-Natal in 1958. Victor showed keen interest in art at the tender age of 6 and his talent developed as he … His work depicts landscapes of KwaZulu Natal and the rural environment, the township environment and changes in …

… The Theory of passive resistance or non-violent campaigning …

… The ANC and other Forces of Resistance after Union …

… give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must teach people, in the most vivid and imaginative ways … and exploitation." – Dikobe Ben Martins, The necessity of Art for National Liberation, paper delivered at the Culture and Resistance Festival, 1982. Dikobe wa Mogale Ben Martins is …

… Rural Dislocation: Braklaagte …

… Rural Dislocation: Potsdam …

… Participatory Rural Appraisal …

… , the first Principal, opened the only Non-Discriminatory Art Centre in South Africa on the Estate in Woodstock in … the first Woman Director in 1996. Ruth Prowse School of Art continues to run in its original Location in Woodstock, … Ruth Prowse School of Art …

… Notes on the African National Congress land and rural policy as spelt out in the Freedom Charter and the Road … ANC land and rural policy …

… Progressive Art Project …

… Workers Art Exhibition …

… African Art Week …

… Art for peace …

… New art body …

… Art against conscription …

… Passive resistance …

… Resistance continues …

… As the Polly Street Art Center drew to a close so Rorke's Drift was established. Polly Street was urban, Rorke's Drift rural. If Polly Street attempted a romantic re-connection to … urban areas whereas the crafts producers were generally rural people. The fine art section seems to have cost the …

… Early Resistance, the 1913 Land Act and deputations to London …

… Patja Kekana was born on 1 January 1916. He grew up on a rural homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as … Later, Kekana travelled to Europe in 1960. He visited art museums and witnessed the Passion play in the German city … realist work. He also spent time at Camberwell School of Art, one of London’s leading art and design school, in 1961, …

… From the book:  Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department … regularly and a bit at a time inertia - literally, resistance to change; thus, a tendency to do nothing or to … totally urbanised, terminating ties with relatives in the rural areas morgen - a South African measure of land equal to …