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Knowledge Mushohwe Art Zone A logo characteristically represents the mission, ambition, values, or ethos of an organisation or brand. As such, graphic designers bestowed with the responsibility of creating a logo on behalf of an organisation typically reduce these characteristics into visual shorthand that uses colour, shape and form to communicate a representational disposition of either a
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Knowledge Mushohwe Art Zone Most people outside the art world are frequently repulsed by artists’ personalities, including hairstyles, clothing and choices of recreational activities. A number of my artist friends with dreadlocks mention that their hairstyles are declarations of independence from the ‘normal’ way of life which they point out resembles a
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Knowledge Mushohwe Abstract A good number of visual artists’ skills are not restricted to one genre. For example, Munyaradzi Mazarire, an Epworth-based artist, does not just draw, paint, sculpt and design — he is also an accomplished musician who plays both mbira and marimba instruments. Other prominent Zimbabwean visual artists such as Chikonzero Chazunguza, Masimba Hwati and
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Knowledge Mushohwe Trained visual artists complain that their craft has now been devalued because armature designers are cropping up on every street corner. The educated and experienced creative personnel may use theories and literature to justify their work, but the new ‘kiya-kiya’ brigade has absolutely no such worries. There are people out there with computers and […]
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent IN recent times, information graphics, or infographics have become an accepted and relevant form of newspaper art. In the wider context, an infographic is a visual medium used by scientists, technicians, teachers and journalists for explaining news as well as inventions, theories, games, accidents or structures of buildings, machines and living beings. They are used
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Knowledge Mushohwe Today, every form of education is in danger of becoming obsolete if its principals ignore the three important factors — the effect of technological changes on teaching practice, the needs of the society it serves and the continuously changing demands of the industry it
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent A picture is said to be worth a thousand words. The use of visual elements to convey meaning or an idea, commonly termed “graphicacy”, is considered as important as literacy and
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Knowledge Mushohwe Art & About Impressionism indeed became a catalyst for mass production and a tool for the acceptance of art as a part and parcel of the community where it is created.
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Sign language plays a big role in the development of editorial cartoons. Essentially, editorial cartoons are snapshots of an imagined or actual scene frozen in time. Depiction of facial features and body language in this form of art is central to the overall meaning of the composition.
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent Shona sculpture is highly regarded in Western Europe, the United States and even in neighbouring South Africa and the Internet may be used as a vehicle to help the market stand up and notice.
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent Portraiture, the recording of an individual’s appearance and personality, particularly in a painting or sculpture, has often been a work incorporating two statements, one by the portrait artist about perception, style and skill and another by the portrait subject on his or her
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent Getty Images’ values fit in well with the new global corporate ideology, while negative characteristics in some photographs point at the possible risks to this ideology – greed, vanity, pride, indulgence, escapism and aggression.
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Knowledge Mushohwe Political cartoonists do not have comfort zones. Their work has to drift into new territories and display their dexterity everyday if they are to retain their relevance. Floating around different subject matter, they can aim for anything from light relief to highlighting serious issues
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent In August 2003, the newly-established Chinhoyi University of Technology welcomed about a dozen new students to the Faculty of Life Long Learning. The students were to begin a four-year journey that would end with the conferment of an honours degree in Creative Art and
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent Giving the online platform a distinct feel sets it apart from its traditional counterpart and gives the latter a fighting chance on a competitive market where several other newspapers do battle for the potential reader’s valued dollar.
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