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🖼️Art History (Aotearoa NZ)

Read a Western painting, a wharenui, and a McCahon with confidence

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How to look at a painting

Composition, light, colour, line

Ancient to medieval, fast

The Renaissance opens the window

Baroque to Romanticism

Realism and Impressionism

Post-Impressionism to modern art

Now turn south

Whakairo, the carving

The wharenui as one artwork

Tukutuku, kōwhaiwhai, and raranga

Lindauer and Goldie paint Māori

Frances Hodgkins leaves, and modernism arrives

Colin McCahon, the landscapes

McCahon, the word paintings

Gordon Walters and the koru debate

Hotere and Binney

Contemporary Māori and Pasifika art

Where to see it

Reading a Western painting

Reading a wharenui

Spot the New Zealand movements

Common mistakes

A practice routine

Where to go next

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