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January 13, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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ZA 🌈 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 : 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲

Scarlin capture la queer-intimité avec tendresse poétique : mémoire, nostalgie et sensualité dans l’ordinaire domestique. Son réalisme magique célèbre le queer face aux normes. Voix sensible d’Afrique du Sud ! 🎨❤️

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January 2, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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Le bronze, c’est lourd ? Pas chez James Cook.
Le sculpteur sud-africain fait flotter des corps fragmentés, entre réel et vide, douceur et tension.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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“The Green Sari” by Irma Stern (South African) – Oil on canvas / 1936 – Irma Stern Museum (Cape Town, South Africa) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #IrmaStern #WomensArt #WomenPaintingWomen #WomenArtists #SouthAfricanArt #SouthAfricanArtist #BlueskyArt #OilPainting #FemaleArtist #art #artText #artwork
Painted in 1936, this portrait reflects artist Irma Stern’s fascination with the diverse communities of South Africa and her commitment to character over costume. Critics often note her “dignified” portrayals; here, the calm face, lowered eyes, and reed-filled setting suggest poise rather than spectacle. The jewelry and fine sari imply a sitter of some standing, likely from the Indian community established in Natal by the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Stern’s impasto scraped and laid on in quick, directional marks keeps the surface alive, especially in the sari’s creamy folds and the reeds’ vertical energy. A woman appears against tall, pale-green reeds, her head tilted slightly left, gaze lowered and thoughtful. Her medium-brown skin is modeled with thick, lively strokes. Her eyelids are heavy, almond-shaped, with dark lashes and a soft highlight along the brow. A deep-green sari blouse and a creamy pallu drapes diagonally across her chest, edged with a fine green line. A single red stud earring catches the light while at her neck hangs a pendant with a rosy stone in a gold setting. Her black hair is pulled back into a low knot. The background is a field of vertical, grass-like strokes, echoing the sari’s green and framing her quiet, dignified presence. Stern once wrote that travel and encounter “opened new doors of color”; even at home, she sought subjects whose presence sparked that chromatic charge. Exhibited as “An Indian Woman” at the Irma Stern Museum in 2020 and later titled “The Green Sari,” the work carries a layered history (it earlier appeared at auction as “Malay Lady in Green”), but Stern’s intent holds steady: to honor a modern woman with individuality and grace. As her reputation grew, Stern balanced local portraits with journeys abroad, refining a palette of greens, yellows, and warm earth tones that became signature in her mature style.
October 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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June 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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"Pondo Woman" by Neville Lewis (South African) - Oil on board / Unknown date (before 1938) - Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums (South Africa) #WomenInArt #art #PortraitofaWoman #SouthAfricanArtist #SouthAfricanArt #AlfredNevilleLewis #NevilleLewis #WomensArt #OilPainting #AAGM #AberdeenArtGallery
This oil painting by South African artist Alfred Neville Lewis was purchased by the Aberdeen Art Gallery in 1938, but its date of creation is unknown. The woman depicted is presumably from the Pondo region, or amaPondo region on the South East coast of South Africa whose people speak Xhosa. A beautiful young, dark-skinned woman with a serious expression, adorned with turquoise bead necklaces and a dark head wrap that covers most of her black hair, is portrayed in a close-up oil painting set against a backdrop of lush green foliage. Her skin tones are rich and varied, ranging from deep browns to warmer reddish-browns, highlighting the contours of her face. We don’t know much on this unidentified woman and her life’s story. We also don’t know about the context in which this portrait was undertaken. Did Lewis pay for her time sitting for this portrait in a studio? Did he sketch her to later return to paint? We simply don’t know. We do know a portrait by Lewis was destroyed during a demonstration as part of the 2015 "Rhodes Must Fall" movement in South Africa, originally directed against a statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT) of former South African prime minister Cecil Rhodes. The campaign captured national headlines and led to a wider movement to "decolonize" education across South Africa which inspired allied student movements at other universities, both within South Africa and elsewhere in the world. Lewis divided his life between South Africa and England. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and then served during World War I. He was a prolific exhibitor, being a member of the New English Art Club, National Society of Painters, and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He had his first solo show at Carfax Gallery in 1920. During World War II, he was an Official War Artist with the South African forces. His work, notable for portraits and figure studies, is held in several public collections including the Tate Gallery in London.
June 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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June 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Our tears will water the soil 🇵🇸
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May 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Gerbera jamesonii, oil & acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm. Available, POR. I ship worldwide.

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April 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Ophelia by Christo Coetzee (South African) - Oil on canvas / 1986 - University of Pretoria Museums (South Africa) #womeninart #art #artwork #oilpainting #SouthAfricanArtist #SouthAfricanArt #ChristoCoetzee #Coetzee #UniversityofPretoriaMuseums #womensart #FigurativeArt #beauty #shakespeare #ophelia
This work titled "Ophelia" is by the South African artist Christo Coetzee and was one of his most prized possessions. The painting is a close-up of a young Spanish woman depicting Ophelia from the Shakespearean play, Hamlet. Many painters (especially British), depicted Ophelia after she unalived herself and flowers were often painted as accessories. Coetzee flipped this by having the flowers in her hair rather than the usual pose of holding flowers. Coetzee's painterly style evokes a dreamy, romantic atmosphere with a lavish crown of stylized roses and ribbons. Her face is rendered with soft, blended colors, giving her an ethereal quality. Her eyes, a striking shade of light green, are large and expressive while her pale skin has subtle hints of rosy blush on her cheeks plus lips painted a delicate reddish-pink. The artist has employed a technique that softens the lines of her face, resulting in a somewhat androgynous effect. Surrounding her head is a magnificent flow of pale roses in various shades of white, cream, and blush pink interspersed with small white flowers and green and brown leaves, lending a sense of natural abundance. Light blue ribbons are woven among the flowers, emphasizing the luxuriousness of the headdress while suggesting a sense of both elegance and freedom. A Spanish aristocrat once offered to purchase this painting, but Coetzee refused as it remained one of the artist's prized possessions. The Johannesburg born Coetzee pursued his art studies at the Slade School of Art in London to complement his fine art degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Later, he moved to Europe and become part of the Stadler Stable in Paris before moving to Finestrat in Spain. Later, Coetzee went to Japan where he joined the Gutai Group, the first radical Art Group in post-war Japan. It was there that Coetzee developed his famous art style that ultimately classified him as one of South Africa's leading avant-garde artists.
April 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Sasha Hartslief
South African artist
b. 1974
The Reader
oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm

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March 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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March 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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"I am Sorry Madam" by George Pemba (South African) - Watercolor / 1993 - Johannesburg Art Gallery (South Africa) #womeninart #art #portrait #watercolor #georgepemba #painting #JohannesburgArtGallery #womensart #woman #southafrican #fineart #southafricanart #watercolorpainting #southafricanartist
"I am Sorry Madam" is a disturbingly poignant and hard-hitting portrait of a black woman, which together with its title, speaks volumes about domestic power relations in a suburban South African home at the time. Exquisitely attired in red jacket and matching red bandana tied to her dark hair, a black woman maintains pride and dignity in the face while avoiding eye contact with an unseen and presumably authoritarian presence. Born in Hill's Kraal, Korsten, Port Elizabeth in 1912, George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba is the best-known black modernist painter from the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. He is highly regarded for rendering his insight into daily life and tradition of the colonial and apartheid eras. His portrait expertly conveys the humanity of a woman caught in a bind between harsh judgment and remaining submissive without undermining her self-worth playing the obsequiousness balance required between herself and a person of privileged authority.
February 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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December 7, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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One of my oil paintings from 2020, "Early birds", oil on canvas, 59x42cm. An interior from Cafe Olympia in Kalk Bay, South Africa. #art #oilpainting #southafricanart
Oil painting of two men sitting at a window counter in Cafe Olympia in Kalk Bay, Cape Town. The early morning sun shines through the window and etches the two men's shadows on a wall. The cafe overlooks the ocean.
November 24, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Song of the Pick (1946)
By Gerard Sekoto

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November 23, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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HONEY SUCCOUR
Acrylic painting on canvas. 600mm x 550mm. 2023.
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November 21, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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November 20, 2024 at 6:24 PM