Title: The Miners Painting
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sam Nhlengethwa explained his paintings of labourers in an interview with Alex Dodd (Smith 2006:84) for an article titled, Jazz and the retrieval of lost histories, as follows: “Why farm workers? Why miners? These are the people who feed us the vegetables we eat, who dig the gold that is the wealth of our country”…”It is an attempt to bring a picture of these people close to the eyes of society. It’s our job as artists. Just like journalists, we must bring stories to the public. To make the big piture of what is going on in South Africa a human story. To humanize it.”
