2012年9月3日 · The series of tapestries depict scenes from the Great Trek, placing the accent on the role of women. The Tapestry contains 3,3 million stitches. The design was apparently undertaken in 1938, but I’m not sure when they started the embroidery of the paintings… It is made up of fifteen panels, and is a magnificent display…

But Coelzer's version of the Great Trek of 1838 perpetuates many popular myths about the Afrikaner past and, in examining this version, I have identified certain discourses as being influential. ... Just as 'craft' has been marginalised in relation to 'art', so the Voortrekker tapestries and, with them, the women who made the tapestries, were ...

Muller, Ch. 1978. A pictorial history of the Great Trek: Visual documents illustrating the Great Trek. Cape Town: Tafelberg, p. 63 fig. 46; Compare Marthinus Oosthuizen, FMtM1 Fig. 302 and FMtM2 Fig. 17.1.D; ... Landscapes Women Spur Men On Comparative Art. 20. Statue of Gerrit Maritz (FMtM2 Fig. 22.29) Creator: Roos, Jo

2024年11月22日 · “The Great Trek” isn’t just a painting; it’s a portal to a pivotal moment in South African history. It portrays not only the physical exodus, but also the deep-seated hopes, fears, and aspirations that drove those pioneers. Examining it closely, one is struck by Brink’s masterful use of color and texture:

2021年7月20日 · The Great Trek (Afrikaans: Die Groot Trek; Dutch: De Grote Trek), starting in 1836 in southern Africa, was a mass migration of Dutch-speaking inhabitants of the British-run Cape Colony, who left the Cape and travelled eastward by wagon train, into the interior of the continent, in order to live beyond the reach of the British colonial ...

The Great Trek Adrian Greaves ... an appreciation of music and art; fine examples of their coloured wall paintings can still be seen today on numerous rocky outcrops across South Africa. As the famous African explorer, Sir Laurens Van der Post, wrote ... including women and children. They were amenable to trading with the Europeans and, in time ...

2022年11月18日 · The Woman and Child statue in front of the Monument symbolises the participation and role women and children played during the Great Trek. This image was designed by the well-known sculptor Anton ...

2015年1月1日 · The Voortrekker Monument was inaugurated on 16 December 1949, concluding an eighteen-year long project to realize it. Built to serve as a reminder to white South Africans, and especially Afrikaners, of the history and significance of the Great Trek, socially, politically and culturally it embodied the ascendance of the Afrikaner.

Figure 18 This panel pays tribute to the women of the “Great Trek” who stood by their men in spite of all the tribulations and dangers of the Trek, giving their moral support in moments of crisis and danger. Men are depicted as dejected whilst women stand erect in stoical and heroic fashion in defending the /aarger. Thus the bravery, strength and orderliness of a cultivated domestic …

15 Archival description results for The Great Trek (Soviet Union) - Refugees ... also, 5 (3 b&w 2 color) for 2 similar views of painting: "Exodus USSR - 1943" by Mrs. Agatha Loewen Schmidt of Kitchener, Ont. View #1 used in CM 10-47-1 & "Mennonite Exodus" p.360. 1 b&w & 2 colour copies of view #2. Unknown. Great Trek, Mennonite women leaving ...