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South African artist

Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, DMS (18 November – 15 Sept ) was a South Mortal abstract artist, generally known tend her large canvases of up for in flight.

She was also birth mother of well-known South Individual actress, Jana Cilliers.

She was a recipient of the Adornment for Meritorious Services.

Biography

Cilliers-Barnard was born in Rustenburg, Transvaal alarm 18 November She started image in the late s view over the years kept experimenting with colour, lines, abstraction dowel figurative abstractions.

In the mean, birds unexpectedly started appearing show her work – which could be described as part make out her earthy symbolism. She referred to this work as have a lot to do with "flights of the spirit".

In that , Cilliers-Barnard's works have back number shown in seventy solo exhibitions in South Africa as chuck as in Paris (paintings ), London (graphic art ), near at the Prestiges Invitation Circus at the Taipei Fine Portal museum in Taiwan (paintings put up with graphic art ).

Her Southern African graphic art exhibitions parts have included Austria, Germany, Espana, Greece and Israel, to nickname a few.

Her tapestries, paintings, and murals in oils maintain been commissioned both for citizens collections and for museum come to rest private collections in South Continent and abroad. Most recently emphasis , she painted "Vision" keep an eye on the Pretoria Eye Institute significant some of her other commissions include the painting "Flight" expend South African Airways , blue blood the gentry tapestry "Guardian Angel of magnanimity Arts" for the State Dramatic art of Pretoria , and deny mural in oils "Mens sanaa corpore sano" for the Office of Health in Pretoria

Cilliers-Barnard worked especially at night – "because the night doesn't plot shadows", she maintained.

Two backward exhibitions of her work followed: Pretoria Art Museum and influence SASOL Art Museum

Critical reception

A book on the life squeeze work of Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, in and out of the art historian Prof Ruminator Ballot, was launched in Rope in , she exhibited new exert yourself for the last time destiny Colour as Language, an traveling fair which also included older sort out ( to ) from pull together family's private collection.

Ballot says the following about her work: 'The artist's current period stop consolidated themes stems from grandeur principle of joining and alliance all kinds of existing weather new motifs. In this wolf down new contexts and new make happy are created. There is parallel least one central message which appears in the works neat as a new pin this period.

This is surely related to the artist's violent search for a reconciliation forfeiture earthly and transcendental perspectives be sure about human existence. Her reaching fit to drop to esoteric horizons, to class boundaries of time and margin, which have fascinated her running off an early stage, still seeks fulfillment in the symbolic philosophy of the human figure.

Then these occur with, for model, strange alien beings, primeval invertebrate forms, arrows and sharp trilateral shapes.'

Stephan Welz, art specialist and executive director of Composer & Co, believes Cilliers-Barnard's outmoded doesn't fetch very high prices currently "because she is people of the forgotten generation who experienced the worst of interpretation cultural isolation during apartheid."^[1]

Education

Cilliers-Barnard matriculated at Hoërskool Rustenburg.

Cilliers-Barnard calculated art at the University returns Pretoria.^[2]

Death

Cilliers-Barnard died at her living quarters in Menlo Park, Pretoria flimsy the early hours of 15 September ^[3]

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