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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent Since the days of the Renaissance art movement, art historians and critics have sought to use theory as a form of classification for artworks. Though theories have given the art world a way to organise works into different categories, no one theory among scores of them is considered the most accepted or
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Knowledge Mushowe Cartoonists are known primarily for their drawing. Little has been said about the amount or quality of text that accompanies their compositions.
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Knowledge Mushohwe Art Zone The use of exaggeration or irony in an artwork for example is a sign that meaning can only be deduced if the viewer is able to identify and decode these techniques that are both deliberate and uncomplicated.
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent The transformation of the linear, news communication model into masses of interlinked and complicated information avenues with no real leaders or authority has completely destroyed the established gatekeeping
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Knowledge Mushohwe Art Zone The newspaper industry is not just gloomy at the moment, its future appears to be hanging by the thread. News organisations are reporting depressed sales and advertising figures while in most cases, their members of staff are finding it hard to access their hard-earned salaries. Even those that used to get
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Knowledge Mushohwe Art Zone Late last year, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Dan Sterling combined their acting, directing and screenplay talents to produce the now controversial movie, The Interview. The film, starring Rogen and James Branco, is centred on two journalists instructed by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate the
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Knowledge Mushohwe Art Zone The old masters, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Rambrandt and Michelangelo did not need to explain their work. Most, particularly self portraits, religious relics and other commissioned work was self explanatory and their creators hardly left any accompanying notes. A few, such as da Vinci’s ‘Monalisa’, devoid of any
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Knowledge Mushohwe Art Zone Caricature, a form of line art which is judgmental and contains critical content, appears mostly in the print media and is intended to address a specific problem through the use of exaggerated drawings.
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent THE recent terrorist attacks on a French satirical magazine that published depictions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad have been widely condemned worldwide. Before this, on September 30, 2005 Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, published 12 editorial cartoons, most of which had the same prophet as the subject. Ten years ago, demonstrations
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Knowledge Mushohwe Art experts and critics have for decades relied on semiotics as the ideal tool for visual communication analysis. Semiotics, through the use of signs, provides meaning in two layers by answering the questions, “What is it?”, and “What does it mean?”
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Knowledge Mushohwe Creating a website is relatively cheap and renting a ‘wall’ online is even cheaper — it is free. In the New Year, Zimbabwean artists may take their work to the Internet and a global audience to increase the chances of selling their products.
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent It’s the Sunday afternoon Harare soccer fans have been waiting for. Dynamos versus Caps United will always be eagerly anticipated by both the Press and the public. When the match eventually kicks off in front of thousands of fans, two dozen or more photojournalists representing all of Zimbabwe’s print media strategically take their places […]
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Knowledge Mushohwe Art Zone In the 1980s, before the internet took over just about all of our lives, newspapers were proud to display the “exclusive” tag, each time they knew or presumed no other news organisation covered a specific story or interviewed a specific person. Radio news citations worked as pure advertising for the exclusive story, […]
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If for example a man is stout and smokes a big, fat cigar, the cartoonist may want to provide an impression powerful politician
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent Marvel comics, incorporating likeable all-American heroes such as Spiderman, Batman, the Fantastic Four, Wonder Woman, Thor, Superman and the Incredible Hulk have entertained several generations of audiences worldwide. Readers and viewers alike have had their attention captured by the imaginary
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