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Keith Savel Alexander

Keith Savel Alexander (1946 - 2000) was active/lived in South Africa.  Keith Alexander is known for Painting and sculpture.

A tribute to Keith Alexander, one of South Africa’s greatest realist artists, is long overdue. Over a relatively short career of 25 years, the artist created an impressive oeuvre of over 500 immediately recognisable photorealist and surrealist paintings. Specific memories from his life experiences were used as motifs in his work throughout his career, beginning with memories of the 10 000-acre farm his family owned in his country of birth, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Alexander attended boarding school in London where the damage sustained during war-time bombing raids still lingered, and upon returning to southern Africa, he became increasingly aware of the contradictions inherent in his deeply colonial and political fraught upbringing. His decision to study art at the University of Natal was based on the affordability of the books for the course, and he majored in sculpture in his undergraduate Fine Arts degree.

In his Honour’s thesis, he explored Surrealism and studied th1. David Robbins (2000) Keith Alexander: The Artist in Retrospect, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, page 16. 2. Ibid, page 24.   ...  [Displaying 1123 of 3728 characters.]  Artist bio

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