Joseph Churchward studied in Willington New
Zealand, and he said that he love New Zealand. In Joseph Churchward’s artworks
I can easily realize how he used New Zealand traditional culture into his work.
And this makes me think of National pride.
New Zealand artist Dick Frizzell Working as a
commercial artist, he successfully designed many advertisements; his interest
in consumerism and pop culture fuelled much of the artist's oeuvre. He has
worked as an animator, commercial artist and illustrator.
The name of the displayed work is
"Four Four Time" and it features the vintage Mr Four Square logo from
New Zealand's Four Square chain of grocery stores playing the guitar. This
print is particularly interesting to collectors of New Zealand art because if
pays direct homage to another classic Dick Frizzell painting of four Mr Four Square
images in an identical composition and colour scheme. This print makes me
think of Andy Warhol’s pop art, I like all Dick Frizzell’s advertisements, some
of them are just simple illustrations but they all look interesting and have a
strong national pride theme in the way he uses New Zealand icon and symbols.
source：Dick Frizzell - The Painter By Hamish Keith
http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/show/pictures-paintings/68401-dick-frizzell-four-four-time
Momo Xie
ReplyDeleteImmediately after reading this blogpost, it makes me think about Andy Warhol. The Marilyn diptych was created using oil, acrylic and screen enamel on canvas. It consists of a series of twenty-five photographic images of a woman arranged to form a pair of grids. The images are then positioned side by side to create a diptych.
The overall work is horizontal and vertical straight lines and consists of two contrasting panels. The left side of the image is colorful and vibrant with an orange background throughout it. The two sides of the work juxtapose warm and cool colours. The repetitive image is that of Marilyn Monroe and was taken from a photograph used in the film Niagara in 1953. The right side seems rough and each set of five images ranges from dark to light.
In my opinion, these works is successful because there are many repetitions of the same image but still different from each other. Each figure has unique features.
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-marilyn-diptych-t03093
I've always been a huge fan of the Frizzel family. It may be beacause I've been brainwashed by my sister or it may be the simplicity and novelty of their concepts. The last works produced by Dick and Otis collaboratively was the fish bomb series. I was in love as soon as I saw this series. A huge canvas with layers upon layers of semi opaque paintings and signage to give them a successful feel of age, followed by a beautifully horrid graffiti bomb of fish symbolizing the kiwi simmer. The idea and inspiation so simple but the work pulled off so effectively.
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ReplyDeleteI really like Dick Frizzell. reallly vintage design. since 4-5 years ago. The Auckland Gallery has his exhibition. They printed one of his work for the invitation stuff. That really impressed me alot."Mickey to Tiki Tu Meke" is a wonderful image by one of New Zealand's most popular artists, Dick Frizzell. This price is for the fine art reproduction of Mickey to Tiki framed in a contemporary glass-free frame using a box edged framing system: image sits flush in frame and the print surface is protected by durable low sheen laminate.
ReplyDeleteStephie Chen
I am a fan of Dick Frizzell as well, and after reading this post it reminded me of an article i came across during the Rugby World Cup here in 2010. It talked about how Frizzell was the first official artist of the World Cup.
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Another design entitled "Two Halves and Four Quarters" used the RWC ball imagery to create a tiki face and drew on the Kiwi tradition of orange segments at halftime.
"They wanted me to locate Rugby World Cup 2011 culturally and geographically in New Zealand and to give it that Kiwiana flavour.
"I just dived into the nostalgic history and applied all my own motifs to the culture of rugby in New Zealand," he said.
Source:
http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/news/frizzell-flavour-for-rwc-merchandise/1036974/
-TESS PYKE