#south african art

[thunderstruck9]

Alexis Preller (South African, 1911-1975), The Blue Plate, 1956. Oil on canvas, 51 x 61.5 cm.

[neshamama]

lisa brice, "untitled," 2023-2024, oil on trace

[weepingwidar]

Lisa Brice (South African, 1968) - Bar Games (2023)

[ayandagama]

Tsakisani

[jareckiworld]

Frances Goodman — Pleasure Pile (acrylic nails, foam, resin, silicone glue, 2020)

[fyblackwomenart]

"Lady Double U " by The Fresh Canvas 

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FlamingoFriday: South Africa has 2 native flamingo species, the Greater Flamingo & Lesser Flamingo; both appear in works by South African expressionist artist Maggie Laubser (1886-1973):

1. Flamingos on the beach, n.d.

2. Flaminke en seilbootjie, 1932

3. Uitsig met boot en flaminke, n.d.

4. Landscape with houses, figure, boats and birds, n.d.

(all works oil on board, likely c.1930s)

[oliverscarlin]

Oliver Scarlin - Watermelon, Cuttlebone and Tin Whistle (2023)

[kundst]

Ina van Zyl (RSA 1971)

Baby Blue Eucalyptus (2023)

Oil on linen (50x30cm)

[365daysoflesbians]

Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date.

Muholi describes themself as a visual activist. From the early 2000s, they have documented and celebrated the lives of South Africa’s Black lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex communities.

In the early series Only Half the Picture, Muholi captures moments of love and intimacy as well as intense images alluding to traumatic events – despite the equality promised by South Africa’s 1996 constitution, its LGBTQIA+ community remains a target for violence and prejudice.

[theaskew]

Marlene Dumas, (South African b.1953, lives and works in the Netherlands), Mouth, 2018-2021. Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 cm | 11 13/16 x 9 7/16 in.

[thunderstruck9]

Wonder Buhle Mbambo (South African, 1989), Umbazi, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.

[neshamama]

lisa brice, "untitled (after manet & degas)," 2023, oil and pigment on linen

[weepingwidar]

Zandile Tshabalala (South African, 1999) - Homebody: Bathtub Serenity (2023)

[killyridols]

the unfolding by mia chaplin, 2018, oil on canvas, 61 × 46.1 inches

[jareckiworld]

Olaf Bisschoff — The Library of Babel (Jorge Luis Borges, 1941) oil and canvas, on board, 2023.