Thank you. Let me know who else you need a video on.

@LillianGrayArt oh wow! There's a LIST. So far: Dada artists - arp, schwitters, Duchamp Surrealism - Dali, Rothko, Magritte, Ernst, Khalo Abstract expressionism - Pollock, de kooning, Rothko Pop art - Warhol, Oldenburg, Hamilton, lichtenstein Minimalism - Judd Op & kinetic art - Riley, Calder Conceptual art 1970 & current non-traditional art (beuys, burden, Christo & Claude, Smithson, Chicago, hirst, Oppenheim, accondi) South African resistance art (stopforth, van Wyk, Murray, Catherine, Alexander, bester, zylla) South African contemporary art (Jan van de merwe, Penelope siopis, Churchill madikada) I tried to exclude the ones you already have, but I might've missed a few💖 these are just a few in the matric syllabus as well. It'll help a lot of us out

@@thisperson6219 Yes, we have a video on Willie Bester. He is incredible and deals with shocking real-life issues. I am currently busy with Keith Haring and some other international artists since they up the algorithm for the channel way more. (Amount of Views) But I realise gathering info on SA artist is near impossible and what is needed most.

BTW I adore Alexander but I do think KZbin will sensor most of her art. But I can just blurr the shocking bits.

Yes, people don't realise how censored South Africa was and how much control the government exerted over the media.

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The purpose of these videos has always been to provide free education to all the high school kids in South Africa and create awareness of talented South African Artists. The goal has never been to make money. Monotasation on these videos has been switched off. All the sources are listed and credited on our blog posts. Our Blog is also not monetised. You are referenced propperly.

Resources Allina Ndebele: Weaver-designer. 1985. Exhibition catalogue for ‘Tapestries by Allina Ndebele’, 6 November-6 December 1985. Pretoria: Pretoria Art Museum. Berglund, A-I. 1989. Zulu thought patterns and symbolism, revised edition. London: Hurst and Company. Biyela, N.G. 2009. Popular predictor birds in Zulu culture. Hobbs, P. 2004. Shifting paradigms in printmaking practice at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift, 1962-1976. MA thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Hobbs, P. and N. Leibhammer. 2004. Allina Ndebele and the increasing picture. In Veterans of KwaZulu-Natal, ed. J. Addleson. [CD Rom]. Durban: Durban Art Gallery. Hobbs, P. and N. Leibhammer. 2011. Water and space: Unravelling meaning in the weavings of Allina Ndebele. de arte 83:5-20. Hobbs, P. and E. Rankin. 2003. Rorke’s Drift: Empowering prints. Cape Town: Double Storey Books. Hofmeyr, I. 1993. ‘We spend our years as a tale that is told’: Oral historical narrative in a South African chiefdom. Portsmouth: Heinemann; Johannesburg: Wits University Press; London: Currey. Ndebele, A. n.d. The Tree of Life: Tapestry story. Transcribed by Nokuthulo Ndebele. Caja Stort files, Eshowe. Ndebele, A. 2013. Personal interview with the author, 15 December, Swart Umfolozi. Ndebele, A. 2013/14. Telephonic interviews with the author, 15 December-20 April, Swart Umfolozi. Roberts, A. 1969. Birds of South Africa. Revised edition, seventh impression. Cape Town: Trustees of the South African Bird Book Fund. Tree of Life. 1965. Isihlahla Sempilo 1(September/ October):1. Philippa Hobbs files, Johannesburg. Zulu, B.S. 2002. From the lüneburger heide to northern Zululand: A history of the encounter between the settlers, the Hermannsburg missionaries, the amakhosi and their people, with special reference to four mission stations in northern Zululand (1860-1913). MT thesis, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/bitstream/ handle/11250/161941/Zulu_mthesis_2002. pdf?sequence=1 (accessed 10 January 2014).

Unfortunately that piece of music was muted by KZbin due to copyright

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Haha. I am so passionate about art history that my videos could be an hour long. I cut this video down from 30 mins. I do have an image of that dress in the video.

@@LillianGrayArt Don't get me wrong. I loved it. Thank you for an informative and fun video.

Great question. As far as I know Mondrian likened the black lines to a skeleton. The way muscles hang on bone structure the colour blocks anchor themselves on the black lines. So the black lines is the structure of the work. Now, where he placed these black lines exactly is complex with a lot of theory and math behind it. He placed the lines to create rhythm, balance, harmony and even disharmony. A New York curator recalled Mondrian working. She said he spent hours moving and tweaking the placement of the lines, sometimes even days. Once tape was invented he could move the lines around and tweak them before painting them. At the end of his career he left some tape on the canvas. In his final artworks the harsh black lines started bothering him and he broke them up into tiny coloured squares as well. Also using tiny ripped pieces of tape. The white squares is often used to balance a work, create breathing space or add to the rhythm of the work. So yes the lines and white squares are done with a lot of consideration and thought and quite deliberately placed by him.

@LillianGrayArt I made a Mondrian-style map in a tower defense game (bloons tower defense 6), and used the victory screen as a base to determine the colored areas. So not really much beeper thought went into it further than: "the victory screen has these colors up here, and this part is mostly blue, so that'll be blue". But alas, it's a game. I'd be surprised if anyone who will play the map will even notice that the map is meant to look like an abstract version of the victory screen. I'm planning on making more of those maps. An entire series of maps, in just his style. And I'm planning on using his method, too. So that was why I asked about the black and white (and -now that I think about it- grey). If I understood correctly the colors are either meant to depict something in a very abstract manner -f.e. yellow is happiness and red is rage- or they are meant to depict the very base of the most eye-catching things in sight. Imagine when you have a picture of a red car in a garage with something that gets noticed quickly, let's say robot arms, the car would be a red rectangle with blue at the spots of the robot arms. And probably with some white in-between. So basically the second explanation is a picture overly simplified with only the main subject(s) in sight and the rest (irrelevant "noise") in the picture is either white or black. By the way if you're curious the map is simply called "Mondrian 1" and is available in the content browser of the game. I had to determine the title for the map, and of course I wanted to allow people to find it easily. "De Stijl" (or even the English version "The Style") would probably be too confusing for most people (because pretty much no gamer is artistically educated nowadays). "Piet Mondrian" is a little long of a title and I'm not even sure people knew his lordly was Piet. And whenever people talk about his paintings, you always just hear "it's a Mondrian". So that's probably the most simple I could've gone (true Mondrian-style 😏).

I've written the script but haven't made the video yet. When do you need it?

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