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Helen Sebidi and Manfred Zylla (Helen Sebidi (Tears of Africa (1988)…
Helen Sebidi and Manfred Zylla
Helen Sebidi
Tears of Africa (1988)
Opted to render memories of a harmonious interaction between humankind and nature
Influenced by figurative work
Fills paintings with marks, shapes and body parts of both humans and animals
Portrays traditional women's work in rural Africa
Destruction of cultural values indicated by fragmentation of colour, face splitting, crayon scrawls and broad brush strokes
Painted scenes of African life that carry the emotional weight of years spent living under iniquity
Portrays people seduced by life in cities, resulting in broken family structures and shattered African identities
One of her most famous works
Fighting with animals
Setting : Garden of Eden
Done in charcoal
Animals symbolize aspects of human nature
Manfred Zylla
Bullets and sweets (1985)
Pencil and watercolour
Distorted viewpoint
Right panel dominated by a soldier with a half-smile on his face. He has a huge presence, he looks down the barrel of his gun row of bullets come from his crotch in his bag a cape dutch homestead and a sausage on a fork reference to his heritage. Shoot sweets at the feet of township children
Meaning - Desire of SA Defence force to be loved by township children in spite of the army's usually monstrous behaviour towards them
Monochromatic tones
Zylla criticised apartheid in this work by showing the atrocities experienced by people living under the effects of apartheid
The soldiers in this work portrays a sense of detachment vs the expressive faces of the children
Children in the left hand panel are terrified by the presence of the soldier and are ignoring the sweets
Army vehicles are seen top right
Shielding themselves against anticipated blows