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Notes : Skotnes, throughout his long career, was noted for his work on carved, incised and painted wooden panels. His central position in and influence on South African art history derives not only from his pedagogical work at Polly Street or even in his membership in the influential 1960s Amadlozi Group. It is much more, as this work reflects, about his long-term search for an adequate visual vocabulary to express his position as an artist wrestling with a European cultural and artistic legacy, and at the same time shaping an African visual idiom. His figural depictions mark most clearly the ongoing inflections he gave to this quest, changing subtly throughout his career, but very definitely marking out his work as characteristically Skotnes.
James Sey
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