Glimpse on a learned Black Artist of apartheid years who died young.

Andrew Tshidiso Motjuoadi was a great artist who used a pencil medium as a lens he captured the social life of the people in the township as he observed them. By the standard of Bantu Education of apartheid, he was highly educated as he managed to study in Durban post matriculation studies. Prior to his death suffered from stroke, he attempted to obtain a BSc from University of Limpopo in 1967. Looking at his work, I see element of philosophical musings about the lifestyle and social habiting of his human subjects which he depicted them with confident pictorial conventions and a surge of meticulous patterning and detailed finishing. This picture of his pencil drawing published in a book Art & Artist of South Africa by Esme Berman in 1970 attests to my reading of his work. It's titled Township Musicians and was created in 1966. Wam - Shebeshebe#Chepapeism