History of New Zealand painting
Beginnings - history of NZ painting
Influence of European modernism - history of NZ painting
1890–1900
A new New Zealand art - history of NZ painting
Regionalism
In the 1930s and 1940s a distinctly New Zealand style of painting began to emerge. At this time there was an increasing demand by critics like James Shelley (1884–1961) and A.R.D. Fairburn (1904–57) for painters to pay greater attention to local subjects. What developed was a New Zealand style of regionalism that is characterised by a preoccupation with place and local identity. The centre of regionalist painting in this country was Christchurch, with pupils and teachers at the Canterbury College School of Art the main exponents.
Expressionism and abstraction - history of NZ painting
Haka at Maketu
British officer H.G. Robley's painting of a haka with muskets at Maketu, about 1865
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: A-080-051
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