ARTH 2120 Lecture 13: 02-27
8 Mar 2017
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Most portraits located on metsanie (upper floor) Botanical illustrator: also in national msm, interested in capturing flora and fauna in kenya, says in book useful to adopt method of botanical drawings to portraits. When commissioned would photograph people and paint later: includes info on ethnic or tribal group person belongs too, 1st attracted to painting desire to capture ethnic objects and costumes, orientalism and exoticisizing other, costume. Mid 19c: groups of ppl moving to area of world had colonial interest, artist becomes recorder. Georges french angas: went to south africa, wanted to paint natives as instrument, objective approach human specimens study. Objectification: of flora and fauna and hunan beings, geroge august schweinfurth, late 1970s, tradn that joy adams is drawing upon. Environmental movement born out of preservationist movement. Traditional costumes are part of idea that need to preserves tradnlt roots.
