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Gordon Walters 戈登．沃爾特斯
No.4 4號
1956
Gordon Walters, a New Zealand artist of European descent, is best known for his abstract paintings based on patterns from traditional Maori art. He made this early monochromic work shortly after returning to New Zealand from Europe, where he encountered the geometric abstractions of Western modernism. The black and white bars are derived from the koru, a Maori motif that refers to the form of a fern. Walters inserts a row of triangles and circles, introducing contemporary Euro-American abstraction into the composition. In its combination of a distinctive element of Maori art with a modernist agenda, Walters’s work raises issues of cultural identity and the appropriation of indigenous art.
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