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ALTERNATIVE WARFARE
2016-07-24 00:00:00The name Eugène Marais is familiar to many cultured Afrikaans-speaking South Africans.
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A GREEK TALE
2016-04-24 16:18:36There used to be a very good South African restaurant in Amsterdam called ‘Pygmalion’, located at the beginning of the Nieuwe Spiegelstraat, a narrow street with art galleries and antique boutiques running all the way over the canals from the Herengracht to the Rijksmuseum.
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BIG FEET IN ART
2015-06-07 00:00:00One of most iconic women in the world is undoubtedly Lady Liberty on Liberty Island in New York, also known as the Statue of Liberty. She is around 132 years old by now, stands at a full 93 metres, and wears size 879 Roman sandals.
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TO THE LEFT OR TO THE RIGHT
2015-04-02 00:00:00There is a remarkable theory on composition which intrigues me because it seems to be so obvious.
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WHAT I LIKE ABOUT MATISSE
2015-03-18 00:00:00Henri Matisse has been one of my favourite French artists ever since I became familiar with the range and extent of his career.
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WHAT’S IN A PAINTING?
2014-11-15 00:00:00I would like to shine some light on the relationship between Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) and another Dutch artist of his era, Isaac Israels (1865 - 1934).
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THE ORIGINS OF AFRICA
2014-10-24 00:00:00Look at a globe of our planet and what you see is a snapshot of the continents as they have evolved through time.
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ARABESQUES
2013-08-24 00:00:00According to the glossary in the back of an old history of art book, arabesques are described as intricate surface decorations of plants, spirals and knots without depictions of human figures or forms.
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TIDAL POOL ON BRIGHTON BEACH
2013-07-24 00:00:00Tidal pools are open air man-made structures built on headlands by enclosing parts of rock shelves or on the edges of beaches filled with ocean water. Many of these pools exist as separate entities at low tide only.