{"id":588,"date":"2023-04-05T19:32:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nandos.com\/seeourfuture\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=588"},"modified":"2023-04-19T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:54:00","slug":"gerard-sekoto","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.nandos.com\/seeourfuture\/artist\/gerard-sekoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Sekoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The son of a priest and a schoolteacher, <b>Gerard Sekoto (1913 \u2013 1993) <\/b> was born in Boshabelo, South Africa on a mission station. The same year saw the first of the segregation laws being passed by the parliament of South Africa \u2013 laws that eventually drove Sekoto (together with many other artists, musicians, academics, and activists) into self-imposed exile. He left South Africa for Paris in 1947 and stayed there until his death. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sekoto\u2019s earliest forays into art involved the modeling of clay from a riverbed and chalk drawing on slate used at school. It was in 1928 when he began his teachers\u2019 training and discovered coloured pencils that his talent started coming to the fore. In 1938, he won second prize in a painting competition organized by Fort Hare University College. This achievement led to him leaving teaching and moving to Sophiatown to pursue a career as a full-time artist. His reputation grew and led to a number of group exhibitions. In 1940 one of his paintings was the first painting by a Black artist to be acquired by the Johannesburg Art Gallery. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sekoto was recognized for his ability to capture the humanity and realism of everyday scenes, giving dignity to Black South Africans. Despite his initial struggles in exile, Gerald\u2019s reputation grew and he went on to exhibit extensively in Europe, the USA, and South Africa today, Gerald is widely recognized as a pioneer of Black South African art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1491,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-588","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gerard Sekoto - Nando&#039;s African Art Exhibition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nandos.com\/seeourfuture\/artist\/gerard-sekoto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gerard Sekoto - Nando&#039;s African Art Exhibition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The son of a priest and a schoolteacher, Gerard Sekoto (1913 \u2013 1993) was born in Boshabelo, South Africa on a mission station. 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