Encountering traditions of art making

Artists of The Keiskamma Project also use a range of sewing techniques to make artworks. Their use of sewing challenges the historical idea amongst some western art historians that sewing has a lesser status than painting in western art.

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Can you share some examples of when you have used irony?

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The Keiskamma artists explore different art making traditions for inspiration. Homage to Picasso’s Three Musicians I and II, are the Keiskamma artists’ (2010) interpretation of Picasso’s Three Musicians (1921). Through their encounter with western art history, the Keiskamma artists re-invent Picasso. This is ironic because Picasso, one of the most famous European artists of the twentieth century, was known for his use of imagery from African art.

Glossary

Irony is usually understood to be the use of language that normally means one thing to mean the opposite, for emphasis or humour.