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Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South

Jo Dalgety

A great book I received for my birthday in October. I have just finished looking at all plates and pages and thoroughly enjoyed this journey theorugh New Zealand in paintings.  I’ll start again now and study each artist in more depth as I go. The Fishpond review explains the format exactly. “viewing New Zealand … through the eyes of the country’s greatest landscape painters, from Gully to Frizzell, Angus to Palmer. Drawn from public and private collections, these 100 beautiful and significant landscape paintings, both traditional and contemporary, range through the New Zealand landscape,from north to south, covering every region … Continue reading Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South

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art related happenings

Jo Dalgety

A lot to post – it may all come in one go. I have just come from one of the Sunday talks at the Auckland Art Gallery that are happening while the Rita Angus exhibition is on. Today’s speaker was Principal Conservator, Sarah Hillary giving an illustrated account of her research into the diverse range of techniques used by Rita Angus in her oil paintings. (They are always free and excellent.) I have also been to listen to Marti Friedlander talking about photographing Rita, and Gaylene Preston talking about making and showing her film, Lovely Rita, on past Sundays. The … Continue reading art related happenings

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Wolf Kahn Pastels

Jo Dalgety

Today I headed to Borders with my 30% discount voucher and bought this book, Wolf Kahn Pastels. I need to read something about this artist whom I first saw on an artist’s calendar years ago and whose paintings I love for their colour. Without reading anything of him, why he paints and what he paints I seem to have been influenced by him somehow. I had to choose between ‘Rita Angus’ and ‘Seen this Century’ and also a Mark Rothko book that looked delicious, but their turn will come. Opened the Wolf Kahn book and on page 9 there is … Continue reading Wolf Kahn Pastels

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The Big Picture

Jo Dalgety

“Legendary art commentator Hamish Keith returned to much-deserved national attention last year when his television series and accompanying (Godwit) book THE BIG PICTURE seized the imagination of New Zealanders. The high-rating show and bestselling book rekindled fresh enthusiasm for the complex and fascinating story of our art heritage and cemented Keith’s stature as one of our most engaging, confronting and witty cultural commentators. NATIVE WIT, Keith’s witty, revealing memoir, gives readers an insight into his well-lived, rich and immensely varied life. Whether as a confrere of Colin McCahon, the chairman of the Arts Council, husband of Oscar-winning film costume designer … Continue reading The Big Picture