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Themes

Fred Schimmel

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Why look at art?

looking, reflecting

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What is ‘abstract art’?

looking, reflecting

Activities

Looking at pictures, finding the words

looking, reflecting

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The birth of abstract painting

looking, reflecting

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How does line make meaning?

looking, reflecting

Activities

Drawing the line

drawing, line, marks

Activities

Lines of gesture

drawing, line, marks

Artists

Marcus Neustetter

drawing, line, marks

Activities

Drawing Sound

drawing, line, marks

Artists

Douglas Portway

drawing, line, marks

Artists

Louis Maqhubela

drawing, line, marks

Artists

Bill Ainslie

drawing, line, marks

Artists

Ernest Mancoba

drawing, line, marks

Artists

Larry Scully

drawing, line, marks

Activities

Talk About Abstraction

drawing, line, marks

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The colour paper chase

drawing, line, marks

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Creating secondary colours from primary colours

colour, colour mixing, interpreting, painting

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Creating tertiary colours from primary colours

colour, colour mixing, interpreting, painting

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Face and identities

expressing, looking, portraits, reflecting

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So, what is portraiture?

discussing, expressing, portraits, reflecting

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How does the world see you?

identity, portraits

Artists

George Pemba

listening, looking, portraits, reflecting, talking

Artists

Ephraim Ngatane

listening, looking, portraits, reflecting, talking

Artists

Irma Stern

artist as commentator, listening, looking, portraits, reflecting, talking

Artists

Terry Kurgan

listening, looking, portraits, reflecting, talking

Artists

Marlene Dumas

listening, looking, portraits, reflecting, talking

Artists

Moshekwa Langa

artist as commentator, listening, looking, portraits, reflecting, talking

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Five children and a sigh

colour, composition, describing, expressing, listening, looking, proportion, reflecting, talking, texture

Activities

Making self-portraits: Drawing your face

drawing, form, line, painting, texture

Activities

Back-of-the-head portraits

drawing, form, line, texture

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How do you want to be seen? The construction of identity

global society, identity, mixed media, personal expression, photography, symbolic

Artists

Lebogang Kganye

global society, identity, mixed media, personal expression, photography, symbolic

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Airbrushed brides and grooms: Photographic colourists

collage, photography, research, sources

Activities

Your own studio portrait

collage, photography, research, sources

Activities

Self-portrait collage

collage, identity, mixed media, personal expression, portraits, presenting, symbolic

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Traditional masks

African masks, identity, photography, symbolic

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The Egungun masquerade

African masks, heritage, identity, photography, symbolic

Activities

Making the mask

African masks, colour, construction, contrast, emphasis, line, mixed media, presenting, proportion, recycled materials, reflecting, shape, texture, tone

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Artists and the human body

3D, artist as commentator, construction, fashion, interpreting, personal expression, photography, reflecting

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Bodies at work

artist as commentator, interpreting, societal issues

Artists

Jonah Sack

drawing, interpreting, line, looking, proportion, texture, tone, wet drawing media

Artists

Gerard Sekoto

artist as commentator, colour, emphasis, line, painting, repetition, rhythm, societal issues, unity

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Dancers and lovers

artist as commentator, colour, emphasis, line, painting, repetition, rhythm, societal issues, unity

Artists

Deborah Bell

colour, drawing, line, marks, painting, tone, wet drawing media

Activities

Your Own Expressive Body

describing, drawing, interpreting, looking, responding, wet drawing media

Activities

Discovering proportion

describing, drawing, interpreting, looking, responding, wet drawing media

Activities

Figure drawing

describing, drawing, interpreting, looking, responding, wet drawing media

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What is sculpture?

describing, drawing, interpreting, looking, responding, wet drawing media

Activities

Human Sculptures

describing, drawing, interpreting, looking, responding, wet drawing media

Artists

Deborah Bell

carving, draped fabric, form, sculpture

Themes

Belinda Blignaut

carving, draped fabric, form, sculpture

Artists

Noria Mabasa

carving, draped fabric, form, sculpture

Themes

Claudette Schreuders

carving, draped fabric, form, sculpture

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A Guardian Spirit

carving, draped fabric, form, sculpture

Activities

Soap Carving

carving, draped fabric, form, sculpture

Artists

Willie Bester

carving, draped fabric, form, sculpture

Activities

Making a creature

balance, construction, form, proportion, recycled materials, sculpture, variety

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Human figurines in southern Africa

clay, heritage, researching

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The Gimwane doll of the Ntwane people

clay, heritage, researching

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The Bana ba Pelego child-figures of the North Sotho

clay, heritage, researching

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The Nguana Modula of the South Sotho

clay, heritage, researching

Themes

Swazi child-figures: Umntwfana

clay, heritage, researching

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Taking traditional doll figures further

balance, construction, form, proportion, recycled materials, sculpture, shape, texture

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Women and stereotypes

balance, construction, form, proportion, recycled materials, sculpture, shape, texture

Artists

Bongi Bengu

artist as commentator, looking, painting, pattern, reflecting, responding, societal issues, texture

Themes

Mary Sibande

artist as commentator, looking, painting, pattern, reflecting, responding, societal issues, texture

Artists

Sethembile Msezane

artist as commentator, heritage, identity, public art, societal issues

Artists

Penny Siopis

artist as commentator, colour, draped fabric, interpreting, looking, painting, reflecting, researching, responding

Themes

Nicholas Hlobo

artist as commentator, colour, draped fabric, interpreting, looking, painting, reflecting, researching, responding

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Bodymapping

colour, line, mixed media, personal expression, proportion, shape, symbolic

Themes

Objects tell stories

looking, reflecting, responding

Artists

Bongi Dhlomo Mautloa

artist as commentator, interpreting, looking, reflecting, researching, responding

Artists

Keith Dietrich

artist as commentator, interpreting, looking, reflecting, researching, responding

Artists

Jo Ractliffe

artist as commentator, interpreting, looking, reflecting, researching, responding

Themes

The things I love

balance, contrast, emphasis, line, shape, texture, tone

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Feeling texture, seeing texture

balance, contrast, emphasis, line, shape, texture, tone

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Texture you can feel: sculpted surfaces

balance, contrast, emphasis, line, shape, texture, tone

Themes

Jeremy Wafer

artist as commentator, interpreting, looking, reflecting, researching, responding

Artists

Nandipha Mntambo

artist as commentator, interpreting, looking, reflecting, researching, responding

Artists

Walter Oltmann

artist as commentator, interpreting, looking, reflecting, researching, responding

Artists

Willem Boshoff

artist as commentator, interpreting, looking, reflecting, researching, responding

Activities

Exploring through touch

artist as commentator, interpreting, looking, reflecting, researching, responding

Activities

Working with clay

joining, scratching

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Taking Rubbings

joining, scratching

Activities

Texture Rubbings

joining, scratching

Activities

Feeling with your Eyes

joining, scratching

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Layers of meaning: Readymade and found objects in artworks

joining, scratching

Artists

Penny Siopis

joining, scratching

Artists

Albrecht Dürer

joining, scratching

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Objet trouvé: The beginnings of the “found object” in European art and in Africa

joining, scratching

Activities

A wearable artwork of your own

joining, scratching

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Still Life: Objects of Contemplation

discussing, expressing, interpreting, looking

Activities

Your own still life

balance, colour, contrast, emphasis, light, line, shape, texture, tone

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Small objects of power

balance, colour, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, light, line, looking, reflecting, researching, responding, shape, texture, tone

Artists

Simon Lekgetho

balance, colour, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, light, line, looking, reflecting, researching, responding, shape, texture, tone

Artists

Objects of Significance

balance, colour, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, light, line, looking, reflecting, researching, responding, shape, texture, tone

Activities

What is culture?

balance, colour, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, light, line, looking, reflecting, researching, responding, shape, texture, tone

Activities

Keeping a weekend journal

balance, colour, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, light, line, looking, reflecting, researching, responding, shape, texture, tone

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Museums

balance, colour, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, light, line, looking, reflecting, researching, responding, shape, texture, tone

Activities

Creating your own museum

construction, emphasis, joining, proportion

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Contemporary Consumption

construction, emphasis, joining, proportion

Activities

A day in the life of…An “ad journal”

construction, emphasis, joining, proportion

Activities

How advertising works

construction, emphasis, joining, proportion

Activities

Reading between the advertising lines

construction, emphasis, joining, proportion

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Pop Art: Artists and the consumer culture

interpreting, looking, presenting, reflecting, researching, responding

Artists

Roy Lichtenstein

interpreting, looking, presenting, reflecting, researching, responding

Artists

Andy Warhol

interpreting, looking, presenting, reflecting, researching, responding

Artists

Wayne Barker

interpreting, looking, presenting, reflecting, researching, responding

Artists

Cameron Plater

interpreting, looking, presenting, reflecting, researching, responding

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Rooms

interpreting, looking, presenting, reflecting, researching, responding

Activities

A room you know well

interpreting, looking, presenting, reflecting, researching, responding

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Painted rooms and yellow chair

interpreting, looking, presenting, reflecting, researching, responding

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Drawing with charcoal

charcoal, line, marks, texture, tone

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Aerial perspective

charcoal, line, marks, texture, tone

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Drawing landscapes from observation

charcoal, line, marks, texture, tone

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Colour

charcoal, line, marks, texture, tone

Activities

Finding colours

charcoal, line, marks, texture, tone

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Composition

charcoal, line, marks, texture, tone

Activities

Composition

charcoal, line, marks, texture, tone

Uncategorized

Painting the landscape

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

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Landscapes in colour

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

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The Wounded Earth

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

Artists

Alan Crump

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

Artists

Clive van den Berg

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

Artists

Landscapes of the imagination – Walter Battiss

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

Activities

An imaginary place of your own creation

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

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Different notions of the land

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

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Landscape and ideas about the land

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

Artists

J.H. Pierneef

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

Artists

Wayne Barker and Brett Murray

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

Artists

Christine Dixie

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

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Perspective: The illusion of space

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

Artists

Siyabonga Sikosana

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

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Can linear perspective also express feelings?

colour mixing, contrast, emphasis, interpreting, line, looking, painting, proportion, responding, texture, tone, unity, variety

Artists

Karel Nel

interpreting, looking, presenting, reflecting, researching, responding

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Maps and bird’s eye views

interpreting, looking, researching

Artists

John Phalane

interpreting, looking, researching

Artists

Titus Matiyane

interpreting, looking, researching

Activities

Mapping your world

interpreting, looking, researching

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Landscape: Moving through space

interpreting, looking, researching

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Land Art

artist as commentator, interpreting, line, looking, pattern, personal expression, reflecting, researching, responding, shape

Artists

Gaba Vuyisile Funda

artist as commentator, interpreting, line, looking, pattern, personal expression, reflecting, researching, responding, shape

Artists

Strijdom van der Merwe

artist as commentator, interpreting, line, looking, pattern, personal expression, reflecting, researching, responding, shape

Artists

Nukain Mabuza

artist as commentator, interpreting, line, looking, pattern, personal expression, reflecting, researching, responding, shape

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People’s Parks

artist as commentator, interpreting, line, looking, pattern, personal expression, reflecting, researching, responding, shape

Activities

An outdoor site-specific artwork

artist as commentator, interpreting, line, looking, pattern, personal expression, reflecting, researching, responding, shape

Activities

Speaking Out

artist as commentator, interpreting, line, looking, pattern, personal expression, reflecting, researching, responding, shape

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Many “truths”

artist as commentator, compare and contrast, engage and discuss, interpreting, Respond to current events, societal issues, symbolic language

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Three images of The Battle of Rorke’s Drift

artist as commentator, compare and contrast, engage and discuss, interpreting, Respond to current events, societal issues, symbolic language

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Three Guernicas

artist as commentator, engage and discuss, interpreting, listening, looking, symbolic language, talking

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Protesting against injustice

artist as commentator, interpreting, symbolic language

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Reading images, finding clues

artist as commentator, interpreting, symbolic language

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Forced removals: walls come down

artist as commentator, interpreting, Respond to current events, societal issues, symbolic language

Artists

Paul Emmanuel

artist as commentator, interpreting, Respond to current events, societal issues, symbolic language

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Reading photographs

composition, interpreting, line, texture, tone

Activities

Picturing our lives

balance, composition, interpreting, line, societal issues, symbolic language, tone

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Political posters

balance, composition, interpreting, line, societal issues, symbolic language, tone

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Photography and posters

artist as commentator, balance, composition, interpreting, line, societal issues, symbolic language, texture, tone

Activities

Designing and making a poster

colour, composition, line, shape, tone

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Artists and walls

artist as commentator, colour, composition, interpreting, line, listening, shape, talking, tone

Activities

Design your own Tag

artist as commentator, engage and discuss

Artists

Durant Sihlali

artist as commentator, engage and discuss

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Walls that tell stories

artist as commentator, engage and discuss

Artists

Phakamile Mabija

artist as commentator, engage and discuss

Activities

Making a mural

artist as commentator, engage and discuss

Artists

Esther Mahlangu

artist as commentator, engage and discuss

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The origins of art: the spirit world

heritage, symbolic language

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Southern African rock art

heritage, societal issues, symbolic language

Activities

Painting with tools from nature

colour mixing, painting, tone

Activities

Making a therianthrope

collage

Activities

Dream worlds

collage

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Continuing the story

heritage, interpreting, societal issues, symbolic language

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Art, ritual and religious beliefs

artist as commentator, compare and contrast, interpreting, societal issues, symbolic language

Activities

Looking for clues

looking, reflecting, writing

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Ritual, tradition and change

heritage, societal issues, symbolic language

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Initiation: tradition and change

engage and discuss, interpreting, listening, looking, reflecting, symbolic language, talking, writing

Artists

Colbert Mashile

engage and discuss, interpreting, listening, looking, reflecting, symbolic language, talking, writing

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A cry of comfort for ancient rituals

listening, looking, talking, writing

Activities

Create a ritual for your time

engage and discuss, interpreting, listening, looking, symbolic language, talking, writing

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The impact of Christianity on art in South Africa

engage and discuss, interpreting, listening, looking, symbolic language, talking, writing

Artists

Jackson Hlungwani

engage and discuss, interpreting, listening, looking, symbolic language, talking, writing

Activities

“Jackson’s Dilemma”

engage and discuss, interpreting, listening, looking, symbolic language, talking, writing

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Heightened states of feeling

engage and discuss, interpreting, listening, looking, symbolic language, talking, writing

Artists

Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi

engage and discuss, interpreting, listening, looking, symbolic language, talking, writing

Artists

Cyprian Shilakoe

engage and discuss, interpreting, listening, looking, symbolic language, talking, writing

Activities

From darkness into light

charcoal, contrast, emphasis, tone

Springboards

Surrealism

charcoal, contrast, emphasis, tone

Artists

Ezrom Legae

charcoal, contrast, emphasis, tone

Butcher Boys Jane Alexander

Artists

Jane Alexander

charcoal, contrast, emphasis, tone

Activities

Making a Surrealist painting

charcoal, contrast, emphasis, tone

Artists

Man Ray

charcoal, contrast, emphasis, tone

Activities

Surreal Selfies

mixed media, symbolic language

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