Something you must know about South African Art Paintings
South African art has always captured on the distinctiveflavour of the country, from the 4 000-year-old cave paintings of the San Bushmen – the widest collection of rock art in Africa – to the home-based theoretical art movement that jumped up as apartheid came to an end in the 1990s. The San Bushmen, Africa’s erstwhile hunter-gatherers, survived in the enormous Drakensberg range of mountains from 4 000 years ago until they were thrown out by colonialists in the 19th century. Over a period of time, they created an enlarge pool of art on the walls of caves and rock shelters – the largest and most focused group of rock paintings in sub-Saharan Africa. This dynamic collection of South African art painting prompted Unesco to inscribe the Drakensberg as a mixed natural and cultural world heritage site in 2000. The paintings, Unesco said, “represent the spiritual life of the San people” and are “outstanding both in quality and diversity of subject”. “The San people lived in the mou