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Works for Imaginary Book Covers: Lest We Forget: Black Art Under Apartheid - Limited Edition 1 of 50 Artwork

Malcolm D B Munro

United States

Mixed Media, Vector on Cardboard

Size: 12 W x 20 H x 0.1 D in

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The best known South African artists under Apartheid were white. Living in South Africa during the period of white rule, I found black art to be powerful and stark. There was a predilection to using black and white, both in ink and using woodcuts. The works were frequently overtly political and were, and remain, the most authentic of such works I have seen. While I don't think, nor do I claim, to be influenced in my style in whatever form or media I am using by such art, rather I think it is the visceral projection from the works that affected me deeply and does still. In such conditions, you either stayed quiet to be below the radar, or spoke up and exposed yourself to incarceration, torture, or worse. Dealing with harrowing events poses terrible problems for artists in striving to be authentic in those depictions without in any way trivializing them. I know that South African black artists managed this with dignity, and surely such work of theirs spoke clearly to their kin.

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Mixed Media:Vector on Cardboard

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:12 W x 20 H x 0.1 D in

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It is possible, though not proven, that abilities of whatever nature, come from our genes, passed on by parents. In my case, my mother. My mother dripped art. Her sister, whom I never met, was a concert pianist though both brothers were engineers as was their father. My mother lived entirely in the arts world and I grew up in Edinburgh surrounded by artists of all nationalities. I remember visiting one, a painter. Long after my mother had left us, my two brothers and I visited an artist friend of hers. He was as poor as were we and he gave us bread slices covered in sugar. My father, an intellectual and self appointed scholar, had chosen not to work; defeated by the breakdown of his marriage. We went overnight from among the very wealthy in the city into genteel poverty since he had lost his job with the Royal Society of Edinburgh as a result of his withdrawal from the outside world. This was a peculiar upbringing. What it meant for me is that I could not do anything but choose a career which guaranteed security of employment and income throughout my life. A natural choice was engineering. I spent my life in this career for which I was quite unsuited and quite alien to me but I was good at it, I am tempted to say, very, very good, unfortunately. Now I have reached a point, with that career behind me, where I can pursue what I love and am good at. Well, better at. All those years, in every waken hour outside of the demands of the intensity which engineering requires, were spent pursing knowledge and practice of arts; art, literature, theatre and music. At college I hung around with the artists. My fellow engineering students seemed alien beings to me. I was fortunate indeed to grow up in Edinburgh and one could not wish for a fuller cultural environment. Since my mother was an artist, I was exposed early to the creation of art, both hers and that of her artist friends. Before coming to this country to join family, I lived in South Africa for a period of years, which has influenced me in ways that are not readily apparent in any of my art works. I think the profundity of influence is due to the particular light that fills the landscapes of that part of the world and the people. There is, too, a deeply felt sense of being connected to the world and to the soil upon which we stand and live. I suspect that the political situation of the time made me aware of power abused to subjugate others and to deny them their freedom.

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