Cecil (Edwin Frans) Skotnes 1926 TO 2009. WORLD RENOWNED ARTIST, HE SOLD PAINTING IN VARIOUS MEDIA FROM R5000 TO R873000.00 

 

ARTIST BACKGROUND

East London, Cape Province, 1 June 1926). South African printmaker and painter.

He studied art at the Technical College (1946) and then at the University of the Witwatersrand (1947-51), both in Johannesburg.

The European orientation of his studies was balanced by his interest in African cultural traditions, making him a motivating force behind the emergence in the 1960s of the urban black art movement in South Africa. His name is linked with Johannesburg's Polly Street Art Centre, venue of a municipal social programme for the black community, which he directed from 1952 to 1966.

Influenced by German Expressionist woodcuts, he combined their African allusions with his own growing appreciation of traditional African culture, altering first his style and then his method.