Paintings
- African Snake, The
- All in a whirlpool
- Apartheid Sunflowers
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Blocked
- Chameleon King
- Fish With Flowers (1987)
- Flowers with Shadow
- Greed King Has Doubts
- Leaves
- Mamma Africa
- Moon Wall Flowers Snake
- Portrait of Eldon
- Reaching Alignment
- Red King Cannot Camouflage
- Relationships
- Self Portrait
- Self portrait (1985)
- Slain With A Flower
- Split / Opposites
- Teapot Fades, The
- The Snake Returns
- The Vase Cracks, The Snake is Flung
- We Three Kings
- Yellow teapot, yellow face (1985)
14
Mar
| Blocked |
| Fine Arts - Paintings |
| Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:40 |
 SOLDOil on canvas W: 630mm x H: 1810mm W: 25" x H: 71" This work is unframed & slightly damaged. In this painting I am depicting how one's creative path has been blocked by Apartheid. Art deals essentially with 'truth'. Apartheid and Art are on opposite ends of the spectrum. Here we see the white wall, guillotine-like, in line with the 'artists' head, is shutting out the future. The symbols that are waiting in the foreground (background) are in fact the 'power tools' the artist still has to 'realise'. For these are the tools - his allies - that are going to enable him to survive. I do not support the argument that this creative act (painting this painting) denies the essence of what I have just stated. My personal artistic history proves and vindicates my stance. |