Welgemeend August Art Month - 2019

11 This is especially evident in his series of linocuts entitled The Passion of Judas Iscariot , on which he worked intermittently between 1973 and 1977. Pod left an indelible impression on generations of students at the Port Elizabeth Technikon School of Art and Design, were he assumed a teaching position as head of the graphic department in 1964. He was later appointed as Head of Department. He retired to live in Cape Town together with Marianne Podlashuc in 1990, after which they continued to mount many joint exhibitions of their work. In the few years prior to his death from liver cancer, Pod turned to writing several novels which are populated by characters and caricatures as reflective of our human follies, flaws and foibles as those that appear in the topsy-turvy world of his painted and graphic images. 6 Hayden Proud, Curator of Historical Art Iziko Museums of South Africa July 2019 1. Author’s recollection from personal conversations with Alexander Podla shuc, 2. Author’s recollection from conversations with Alexander Podlashuc. The reported offence that led to his expulsion was his creation of a studio still life which poked fun at Simmers’ derivative, sentimental and subjective notions of what he used to repeatedly refer to as ‘true beauty’ in art. 3. See Geoffrey Wagner. 1954. ‘Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticist Aesthetic’, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , Vol. 13, No. 1 (September), p.1. 4. Esmé Berman. 1983. Art and Artists of South Africa . A.A. Balkema, Cape Town and Rotterdam. pp. 336-337. 5. Berman. 1983. 6. Two novels entitled The Elastic Man and Breakfast with Wolves were completed by 2009. They remain unpublished. Political Satire See page 34