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