New Zealand Painting

Goldie Painting

Goldie is a New Zealand painter who specialises in portrait paintings. In this piece theres a Maori man who has a ta moko on his face showing his maori culture but he's also wearing European clothes combining the differentiated cultures together. 

Dick Frizzel

The Meaning Of life

This piece is a work by Frizzel in response to Colin McCahon. He uses the same palette and structure just different words the sentence ' The meaning of life is us' is Frizzels comment on McCahon's body of work and in relation to how it stands in New Zealand, and the greater world.

Abstraction - Work that does not have recognisable figures/imagery within.

Figurative - This is work that depicts recognisable objects or images within.