A Moment On The Lips Analysis
The theme in my drawing entitles A Moment on the Lips. A Lifetime of Judgement (figure1) is the unfortunate reality of prejudice on race in our Post-Apartheid country portraying the way in which I believe the contrast of colour in our country is beautiful and trying to convince the viewer on my views as well. The artist who inspired me was Tracey Rose in her artwork The Kiss (figure 9) through subject matter, approach, imagery and the development of my concept. In my Final artwork; Stuffed in a Potato Bag, but there is still Hope (figure 6) my thoughts expand on these ideals and extend to produce an artwork which becomes aesthetically pleasing through the harsh reality of truth. The truth being the fact that the Post-Apartheid system is flawed
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This technique used by Tracey Rose; by placing the artist in the artwork, creates an attachment between the viewer and the artist as if having a face to face conversation. I have positioned my two figures, one being black and the other white as in Rose’s artwork, embracing each other timidly, as if knowing they should be cautious of their actions for their country is watching and judging them. Yet their warm embrace creates a content feeling in the viewer as they see how lovely the couple is together and the viewer’s judgemental views towards black and white ideologies are forced to be questioned.The final artwork ( figure 6) has made use of specifically anonymous people to depict the range of South Africans and differences that lie in each person, Sibaya uses the same technique portrays the persons story being the image as not necessarily known but the facial expression is what enables the artwork to convey the message. In Sibaya's work he has made use of an extra ink element to add to his visual representation of his artwork as a whole where as I have added to enhance my visual representation by using a collaging technique to depict an umbrella over the two embraced bodies (figure 3 ). This pop of colour mimics that of Sibaya’s work yet differs in technique. I have then gone and re-used this extra elemental technique in my final artwork by making use of a Hessian bag with an Ndebele designed Geelong snake embroidered into it. This adds to the aesthetical appeal with the bright colours found in Ndebele culture yet light-heartedly raises a controversial issue of differences that still lie within the Post-Apartheid society of
This technique used by Tracey Rose; by placing the artist in the artwork, creates an attachment between the viewer and the artist as if having a face to face conversation. I have positioned my two figures, one being black and the other white as in Rose’s artwork, embracing each other timidly, as if knowing they should be cautious of their actions for their country is watching and judging them. Yet their warm embrace creates a content feeling in the viewer as they see how lovely the couple is together and the viewer’s judgemental views towards black and white ideologies are forced to be questioned.The final artwork ( figure 6) has made use of specifically anonymous people to depict the range of South Africans and differences that lie in each person, Sibaya uses the same technique portrays the persons story being the image as not necessarily known but the facial expression is what enables the artwork to convey the message. In Sibaya's work he has made use of an extra ink element to add to his visual representation of his artwork as a whole where as I have added to enhance my visual representation by using a collaging technique to depict an umbrella over the two embraced bodies (figure 3 ). This pop of colour mimics that of Sibaya’s work yet differs in technique. I have then gone and re-used this extra elemental technique in my final artwork by making use of a Hessian bag with an Ndebele designed Geelong snake embroidered into it. This adds to the aesthetical appeal with the bright colours found in Ndebele culture yet light-heartedly raises a controversial issue of differences that still lie within the Post-Apartheid society of