Dick Frizzell
Dick Frizzell | |
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| Born | August 20, 1943 |
| Alma mater | Ilam School of Fine Arts |
| Style | Pop |
| Children | Otis Frizzell |
Richard John Frizzell MNZM (born 1943) is a New Zealand artist known for his pop art paintings and prints. His work often features Kiwiana iconography combined with motifs from Māori art traditions, such as the tiki and tā moko. He is based in Auckland.
Career
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Frizzell's exhibition Tiki in November 1992 at Auckland's Gow Langsford Gallery aroused controversy for his series of paintings reworking the tiki image to resemble subjects as varied as Casper the Friendly Ghost and a Picasso abstract.[1]
Frizzell has contributed designs to Esther Diamond linen company, has released several varieties of "Frizzell Wines," and designed the cover and several illustrations for The Great New Zealand Songbook (2009).[2]
Frizzell wrote Dick Frizzell: The Painter (Random House NZ, 2009), with a foreword by art writer Hamish Keith. In 2012, he completed a series of paintings of poems by Sam Hunt. At the opening of the exhibition of those paintings on 7 February 2012, Frizzell said that he and Hunt had, in their respective paintings and poems, committed the ultimate "sin", the "sin of being understood".[3] [4]
In the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours, Frizzell was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts.[5]
Photorealistic art
[edit]Though he is best known for his cartoon-derived work, Frizzell is also known as a painter of photorealistic landscapes and still life. His landscapes, often views of rural New Zealand as seen from narrow country roads, have been the subject of several exhibitions, among them Out of Alex, at Dunedin's Milford Gallery in 2019.[6]
Personal life
[edit]Frizzell is a brother of politician Steve Chadwick. Frizzell has three children, including Josh Frizzell, a television and advertising director, and Otis Frizzell, an artist and half of hiphop music duo Slave & Otis.
References
[edit]- ^ Chisholm, Donna (May 2018). "What makes some Kiwi designs last when others fade away?". North & South. 386: 30–41.
- ^ "The Grate NZ Songbook". Stuff.co.nz. 23 July 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- ^ Page Blackie Gallery, Exhibition: Dick Frizzell, Painting The Hunt[permanent dead link] (retrieved 7 February 2012)
- ^ Sarah Catherall, "Frizzell and Hunt team up for exhibition", Dominion Post, 16 February 2012, (retrieved 16 February 2012)
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2004". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 7 June 2004. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ^ "Out of Alex," Milford Gallery, 5–29 October 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
External links
[edit]- Dick Frizzell in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Gow Langsford Gallery's Frizzell page
- Dick Frizzell to paint in Antarctica, New Zealand Antarctic Institute (Jan 2005)
- Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington
- Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
- Ferner Galleries
- Milford Galleries
- Black Barn Gallery
- r h art: the gallery at Woollaston Estates
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