Whakapiri atu te whenua

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Whakapiri atu te whenua

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Whakapiri Atu te WhenuaIn this painting Shane Cotton draws on imagery from late nineteenth-century Māori figurative painting found in the meeting houses on the East coast - a style inaugurated by the prophet Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki and especially prominent at Rongopai marae at Patutahi near Gisborne. Māori figurative painting was one of the first cross-pollinations between Māori and European visual cultures. In Whakapiri Atu te Whenua, Cotton reinterprets and reshapes that early visual ...

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Image

Date created

1993

Creator

Shane Cotton

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/36553

Related subjects

Plants / Containers / Flags / Land / Land use / ownership / Death / Imperialism / oil paint / canvas / paintings / Māori / Palmerston North

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