Traditional Art

Folk art at its most sublime - an art form that is on its death bed
Folk art at its most sublime - an art form that is on its death bed

A recent article in Mmegi had me totally puzzled. The gist was that one lady was bored stiff with traditional art and instead, was doing her own thing.

But how could anyone be bored by traditional art – it’s surely an impossibility? But because the internet has been so slow it took me ages to learn what she had meant by traditional art and therefore why she was so dismissive of it. 

Of course, this turned out to be no more than confusion over words and the different meanings attached to them. It was quickly apparent that the lady was referring to art as it is currently taught in schools, or, if you prefer, to orthodox art.

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