Northern Cape / South Africa, Africa. 1924 - 1988
Abstracted landscapes depicting bushveld wildlife
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1935 - 2004. Known for: Painting.
Durant Basi Sihlali, born in 1935 in Germiston, was a pioneering South African artist known for his realistic portrayals of township life and rural landscapes under apartheid. After spending part of... Read full biography
Durant Basi Sihlali, born in 1935 in Germiston, was a pioneering South African artist known for his realistic portrayals of township life and rural landscapes under apartheid. After spending part of his childhood in Cala, Eastern Cape, where he was inspired by Xhosa wall murals, he began his formal... Read full biography
Durant Basi Sihlali, born in 1935 in Germiston, was a pioneering South African artist known for his realistic portrayals of township life and rural landscapes under apartheid. After spending part of his childhood in Cala, Eastern Cape, where he was inspired by Xhosa wall murals, he began his formal art education at the Chiawelo Art Centre under Alphius Kubeka (1950-1953), later learning from Carlo Sdoya and Sidney Goldblatt. From 1953 to 1958, he trained under Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street... Read full biography
Durant Basi Sihlali, born in 1935 in Germiston, was a pioneering South African artist known for his realistic portrayals of township life and rural landscapes under apartheid. After spending part of his childhood in Cala, Eastern Cape, where he was inspired by Xhosa wall murals, he began his formal art education at the Chiawelo Art Centre under Alphius Kubeka (1950-1953), later learning from Carlo Sdoya and Sidney Goldblatt. From 1953 to 1958, he trained under Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Centre.Unlike many contemporaries exploring abstraction and African symbolism, Sihlali remained committed to realism, documenting urban black life in South Africa with a sensitive eye. His prolific output included watercolours, monotypes,... Read full biography
Durant Basi Sihlali, born in 1935 in Germiston, was a pioneering South African artist known for his realistic portrayals of township life and rural landscapes under apartheid. After spending part of his childhood in Cala, Eastern Cape, where he was inspired by Xhosa wall murals, he began his formal art education at the Chiawelo Art Centre under Alphius Kubeka (1950-1953), later learning from Carlo Sdoya and Sidney Goldblatt. From 1953 to 1958, he trained under Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Centre.Unlike many contemporaries exploring abstraction and African symbolism, Sihlali remained committed to realism, documenting urban black life in South Africa with a sensitive eye. His prolific output included watercolours, monotypes, sculpture, and printmaking. In the 1980s, his work took on new forms influenced by graffiti and traditional mural a... Read full biography
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Township
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LEADING THE BLIND
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CHICKEN MARKET, KLIPTOWN
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Africa. 1958 - 2004
Painting
Africa, South Africa. 1938 - 2016
Symbolist figure painting, animals, body parts
South Africa. 1919 - 1979
Painting, sculpture
South Africa. 1918 - 2007
Landscape painting
South Africa. 1900 - 1983
Still life, figure, landscape, African genre paintings
South Africa, Africa. 1917 - 1991
Impressionist landscape painting, figures and portraits
South Africa. 1935 - 2009
Painting
South Africa. 1959 - 2021
Large-scale portraits, Zama Zama miners, township life, still lifes
New York, California / South Africa. Born 1949
Large scale painting, sculpture, printmaking, mixed media, wall hangings
United Kingdom, South Africa. 1880 - 1964
Landscape and portrait painting, frescoes
South Africa. 1902 - 1985
Paintings
Africa. 1925 - 2004
Depictions of wild animals in wide-open landscapes using various mediums
United Kingdom, South Africa, France, Scotland. 1925 - 2005
Modernist landscape, figure, interior and genre paintings
South Africa, Africa. 1921 - 2001
Stylised African figures in landscapes
United Kingdom, South Africa. 1874 - 1945
Land-and townscape paintings (trees), murals, book illustrations
South Africa, Africa. 1926 - 2009
Abstract figurative carved and painted wood panels, drawings
Africa. 1938 - 2021
Impressionistic style, veldt landscapes.
South Africa, Belgium. 1919 - 2006
Painting
South Africa. 1921 - 2003
Modernist portrait, landsape and marine painting
South Africa. Born 1941
Painting
Pretoria / South Africa. 1908 - 1994
Landscape and figure painting
South Africa, Germany. 1876 - 1960
Watercolor landscape and rural genre painting, sketching, book illustrations
Africa, New Zealand. 1930 - 2014
Abstract painting, floral themes,still life, teaching
Africa. 1940 - 2008
Painting
South Africa, Italy. 1915 - 2011
Modernist, abstract sculpture
South Africa, Russian Federation. 1880 - 1965
Expressionist figure, genre, landscape painting
South Africa. 1906 - 1982
Figure, landscape painting, abstraction, woodcuts
South Africa. 1935 - 2007
Painting
South Africa. Born 1954
Figurative painting and sculpture in a neo-Impressionist style, with a focus on the female figure and human situations.
Africa, United Kingdom, Greece. 1919 - 1972
Landscape and townscape painting
South Africa, Netherlands. 1885 - 1942
Landscape, street scene, still life painting, sculpture