Contemporary NZ Art
Lesson Nine For all levels
The works selected for this lesson look at a variety of art-making approaches in New Zealand in the last 50 years.
Gallery Tour 1 hour
The styles used by the chosen artists demonstrate their greater awareness of international movements in art and the increasingly multicultural nature of New Zealand society.
The discussion of works by Colin McCahon, Philip Clairmont, Ralph Hotere, Tony Fomison, Rudolph Gopas and Margaret Hudson-Ware directly relates their work to the Option 12 Art History topic: Expressionism and Abstraction in relation to international movements.
Curriculum Links
- Visual Arts
Developing ideas, communicating ideas and understanding art in context - Bursary Art History
Option 12: Contemporary New Zealand Art, Topic 2: Expressionism and Abstraction in relation to international movements - English
Oral language: Listening and speaking
Visual language: Viewing and presenting - Social Studies
Culture and heritage











