Traffic light art
posted by Paul
It's difficult to see from the cropped photograph that the tin-shack houses depicted in the foreground of this 430x140x16mm chipboard painting have a 3D appearance. They're actually made from discarded aluminium soda cans!We bought this piece of art today for R100 (approximately 10 Euros); the artist was selling his work at traffic lights on the Newlands part of the M3, at the foot of Table Mountain. Framed it'll look absolutely stunning.
Labels: art, shopping, southern suburbs, street vendor, table mountain
3 Comments:
It's stunning without the frame. There's lots of very good art in South Africa for so little money!!
very interesting, novel concept (to me anyway).
You're right Kate, we have some immensely talented people in our country - and to think that so many of them start with absolutely nothing: resourcefulness at its best.
>Mary, thanks for visiting! You'd be amazed at the array of artworks available here - for many people the only materials they can afford to work with are things other people have thrown away.
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