Resistance art 

It is an artistic movement born in the second half of the 80s, the most violent and repressive period of apartheid government .

•For that reason the hour before sunrise is a common imagine to indicate the hopeful waiting of freedom.

•The apartheid oppositor have the aim to communicate in every form of expression their desagreement: freedom calls and incitations spread out on the t-shirts, walls, pamphlets, flags and all the artistic community is involved in this process of propaganda.

•In 1979 the three Stopforth portraits “the interrogators” (on the right) appear, as a representation of the trhee policemen responsible for the death of Steve Biko.

•This artist, who worked from the late 70s until the early 80s often drew painting about the terrible turtures inflicted to the prisonners.

•The interpretation of apartheid of Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi (images) is a violent clash as in civilisation, as in southafricans families that are now fighting to get and defend their stolen land.

•Jane Alexander represent a sick society through her sculpture (the butcher boy, 1985 Soth African National Gallery).

•PEACE  PARKS

•This innovative movement involved Pretoria and Johannesburg areas.

•It is both a reaction of the oppression and a dignity rivendication from the black community.

•When in 1985 was firstly declared the state of emergency, common services granted by the administration to the townships, as cleang of the streets, were interrupted.

•Soon corners became rubbish dumps, but the young community decided to react and transform that places in free green areas, with coloured walls, but also innovative sculputure realized with painted car wheels, logs and other materials.

•Soon authority decided to eliminate this little alternative parks, but the black creativity didn’t stop and after 1990, with Nelson Mandela liberation, it has possibility to freely express.