| dc.description.abstract | The study examined factors limiting integration of texts and images based on Ganda proverbs to effectively communicate social. Political, economic and cultural issues as expressed in painting in the Greater Metropolitan Kampala. The study was based on exploration of the relationship between images derived from Ganda proverbs to create paintings. A qualitative approach as employed to support this exploratory survey. The exploratory research design used a formative approach that required a different position to the understanding of the status of using painting text and image in Uganda. It also called for an applied approach intended to facilitate an intervention into the stated problem by initiating studio practices and applying proverbial texts and images integration into paintings. The results established the factors that limit the new painterly approach to the integration of text and image using Ganda proverbs. Artists who that combine text and image based on proverbs were recognized. The study identified and selected specific 'Ganda' proverbs that were used to articulate text and image in studio paintings. The data was collected from across a section of people with different knowledge and background, using stratified and purposeful sampling techniques. The same process was used to select the Ganda proverbs. In order to acquire primary data, the study used experimental visual observation to establish the role of text and image in Ugandan paintings. This also allowed the researcher to examine the existence or non existence of text and image in the present paintings and other arts such drawing. With reference to the entire guide hook, the collected data regarding the text and image in painting based on Ganda proverbs will be found substantially different from those that preceded it. Texts and images based on the Ganda proverbs have been used in a symbolic approach to translate the linguistic, economic and socio-political aspects that would not only speak to uninformed but also to those who were only literary aware of the selected proverbs. The paintings aimed to lift up the morals of the whole community, and are ideally suited to the public spaces, Town halls and homes thus inspirational and educational sort of genre. This study further explored the value of musical instrument from Ganda culture in both realistic and abstract, and enhancing them with text.
It could be any text but on this incident, it was proverbs (selected) from Ganda verbal communication which served two purposes of contribute to a compositional aspiration and because of their meaning, they strengthen the cultural content embedded in the paintings. | en_US |
