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Adventuring into Art is a guide to teaching art for South African teachers. The information is divided into themes, which gather related ideas, springboards, which provide historical and artistic context in short essays, activities which are practical classroom guides and artists which features relevant art and biographies.
Abstraction; the visual language of art; an art vocabulary; line and its expressive possibilities; lines and sound; lines and movement; using different media to create expressive lines; colour; colour theory; colour-mixing and using paint.
Portraiture in South Africa; making a self-portrait; identity – photographing ourselves; self-portraits in charcoal; the traditions of masks in Africa: masks and power; making a “power mask” and performance.
Expression through the body, artists’ depictions of the body in action; sculpture and the human figure; traditional child figures in South African art; figure drawing; carving; assemblage; construction; gender prejudice; feminist artists; self-image and body mapping.
The lives of objects and their meanings; objects of ritual, the still life in South African art; drawing and painting still lifes; keeping a sketchbook; self-portrait in objects; texture in art; rubbings; Dada and objét trouvé; museums; a miniature museum; creating sculptures in papier maché; Pop Art; advertising and consumerism.
Artists and the environment; landscape painting and drawing in South African art; other kinds of “landscapes”; San conceptions of the land; depictions of the land and its colonial and other histories; drawing and painting outdoors; perspective; land art and site specific art; environmental awareness through performance and installation.
Art and war; poetry about war; art under Apartheid, art and resistance; documentary photography; curating your own exhibition; poster art in South Africa; designing and making posters, silk-screening; stencilling; graffiti and mural art.
Early symbolic object-making; San Rock art in South Africa; some cultural traditions and rituals; art and the missionary influence in South Africa; ritual objects; Jackson Hlungwane’s “New Jerusalem”; symbolism and surrealism in South Africa and creating surrealist imagery.

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VIDEOS ABOUT IMBALI

New creative exchange documentary

This 25 minute documentary filmed and edited by Justine Watterson narrates the story of the Imbali Creative and Cultural skills exchange that took place in October 2023 between Imbali graduates and Limpopo crafters at Leshiba Wilderness in Limpopo.

Promo video for Imbali Artbook and teachers’ workshops:

Urban/Rural creative skill exchange Limpopo 2023

Creativity and Learning

Developing Thinking

Express Your Creativity

Art Education

A Vehicle of Influence

Mandela Monday

ARTIST INTERVIEWS

Medley

Bongi Bengu

Mongezi Ncaphayi

Usha Seerjarim

Keith Dietrich

Omar Badsha

Kagiso Pat Mautloa

Jo Ractliffe

INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDES

Various techniques and approached to making and looking at art

Introductory film on the Imbali artbooks and instructional videos

Looking at art

Looking at art

Carving

Mark making

Colour

Painting a still life