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South African art is the visual art produced by the people inhabiting the territory occupied by the modern country of South Africa. The oldest art objects in the world were discovered in a South African cave. Archaeologists have discovered two sets of art kits thought to be 100,000 years old at a cave in South Africa.
Noria Mabasa (born 1938), sculptor, ceramist; Esther Mahlangu (born 1935), Ndebele painter; Anja Marais (born 1974), sculptor, multi-disciplinary artist; Judith Mason (1938–2016), painter, mixed media artist, textile designer
Sue Williamson, South African Art Now, HarperCollins, 2009. Sue Williamson, Resistance Art in South Africa, Juta and Company Ltd, 2010. Berman, Esmé (2010). Art and Artists of South Africa. Cape Town: G3 Publishers. pp. 376–379. ISBN 978-1-86812-345-2. Three Centuries of South African Art: Fine Art, Architecture, Applied Arts, Hans Fransen ...
Visual arts portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Artists from South Africa . This category is for articles about artists from the African country of South Africa .
Performing arts in South Africa (5 C) W. Works by South African people (16 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Arts in South Africa"
One example is Marshall W. Mount, [7] who proposed four categories: first, "survivals of traditional styles", which show continuities in traditional working material and methods such as bronze casting or wood carving; secondly, art inspired by Christian missions; thirdly, souvenir art in the sense of tourist or "airport art", such as by the likes of artworks by South African visual artist ...
The National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) is the official arts council for the Republic of South Africa. The NAC was established in 1997 by an act of the South African Parliament [1] (Act No. 56 of 1977). [2] The NAC is one of the main funding bodies for South African artists. [3]
Benin art is the art from the Kingdom of Benin or Edo Empire (1440–1897), a pre-colonial African state located in what is now known as the South-South region of Nigeria. The Benin Bronzes are a group of more than a thousand metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin in what is now modern-day Nigeria.