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Knowledge Mushohwe Getting lost on South Africa’s complex road network is easy, but it is just as simple to realise that one is lost, and getting back on track is well directed by roadside visuals. Traffic signs inform, regulate, warn and guide road-users within a traffic system.
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WHEN Dominic Benhura presented his multi-piece “Leap Frog” spring-stone sculpture to local authorities some years ago, the idea must have been to have it occupy some public space for generations. But that vision is literally crumbling.
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Acceptance by a wide, varied audience is the ultimate objective for any artist. Visual communication by artists can only be seen as successful if there is interaction between the artwork and viewers. And that success depends; to a large extent on the proficiency of the
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Newspapers tend to spend a lot of time on design and layout of the front page. The front page is the face of a newspaper, and the entry point for the readers. But because the available space on the front page is limited, not all the important or interesting stories
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Knowledge Mushohwe POLITICAL cartoons are not a new phenomenon. In the Western world where their history is relatively longer than in developing countries, scholars have identified categories and possible functions of the political cartoons. But based on the contents of political cartoons
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Advertising space in Zimbabwean newspapers today is dominated by one-off marketing compositions created to bring readers’ attention to a product or service.
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News organisations are middlemen in the context of information systems. They have a job and mandate to collect information and in turn “repackage” it and serve the wider public.
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Knowledge Mushohwe If there is one characteristic that distinguishes editorial cartoons from the rest of art forms, it is the use of text and visuals to create a complete composition. The text plays the complementary role as an indicator, a speech bubble or an explanatory tag that helps the viewer to
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Knowledge Mushohwe The Government raised expectations on Zimbabwean artists, particularly visual artists, by presenting a people-driven manifesto seeking to empower the majority. According to the manifesto, “the ideological meaning of Indigenisation and People’s Empowerment arises from the
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In conflict zones or polarised societies, as was the case during the post-World War I era, Art can be as dramatic and irrational as the war itself.
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When newspapers first hit the streets, their content was made up exclusively of words and drawings. Of course the camera was not yet invented, but the drawings served as useful visual information to populations that were largely illiterate. The arrival of the camera
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Knowledge Mushohwe Whenever a political cartoon is presented to the public, chances are that at least one person — the subject in the composition will be enraged by it. A form of art that extensively employs satire, irony, stereotyping, caricature and distortions as weapons is always likely to divide public opinion.
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THE green movement in Australia, built around a global conservation theme, is finding the going tough just three weeks before national elections. Their ratings are low, and major parties they mixed and mingled with in the past are keeping a good distance away. Their beliefs are not bad. The green movement is an organisation
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Back in the day when the country was being liberated, The Patriot reported that Morgan Tsvangirai found young women, poverty-stricken “komboni”, girls to be easy prey. Having a good job and earning good money apparently came with good perks. In their article, the nationalist weekly paper reported that witness accounts
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