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Title
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Works by Colin McCahon
Description
An account of the resource
Colin McCahon is recognized as one of New Zealand’s foremost painters for his inventive and visionary contribution to art. He lived from 1919 to 1987, his career spanning four decades of the Twentieth Century. His landscapes reflect his environmental concerns, but also a recognition of the raw essence of a young country, and an ability to portray New Zealand in a unique and iconic way. Religious and moral issues are explored throughout McCahon’s work, as evidenced by his use of Christian imagery. Another of McCahon's interests was poetry, and he became the first New Zealand artist to incorporate words and numbers in his work.
Contributor
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Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Still Image
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Title
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Te tangi o te pipiwhararua. (The song of the shining cuckoo) from a poem by Tangirau Hotere.
Alternative Title
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The song of the shining cuckoo.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Beaches
Christian art and symbolism
Death in art
Folklore
Legends
Maori language
Maori (New Zealand people)
Mythology, Maori
Numbers in art
Pictorial works
Pūrākau
Spirits
Stations of the Cross in art
Symbolism in art
Wairua
Description
An account of the resource
This is one of McCahon's major works of the mid-1970s, along with the <em>Urewera Mural</em>, the <em>Blind</em> series, and the <em>Parihaka Triptych</em>. It has several motivations and triggers. The primary one is the shining cuckoo's song, spoken of in a Maori poem passed on to McCahon by Ralph Hotere who got it from his father. Such gifts often produced an 'answering hark' from McCahon. In this instance he combined the words of the song with several other strands of sign and image - Roman numerals, window frames, misted landscapes in white, gray and pale lemon, abstract panels a la Mark Rothko in his sombre phase. Other elelments come in to play through the talk around the painting. McCahon said he painted it as a memorial for three recently dead poet friends, R.A.K. Mason, Charles Brasch and James K. Baxter. Critics have pointed out the mixture of Maori, Classical and Christian elements, the latter being carried by the numbers 1 to 14, the number of stations of the cross in Catholic liturgy and a major McCahon motif, especially in the mid-1960s. Caselberg wrote an essay 'Colin mcCahon's Panels, "The Song of the Shining Cuckoo'", published in <em>Islands</em> 18 (1977), along with various texts and facsimiles. McCahon gave the work to the Hocken Library as a memorial to his poet friends. This is made explicit in a letter to John Caselberg: <br /> <em>It should be at Hocken. Could you see to this & if Hocken should want to make it a gift, for gifts: to Baxter, Mason, Brasch, please, do. When I start painting for myself I'll die.</em>
Through image, panel 1 with brush: I II Tuia Tui; margin below panel 1 with brush: Tuia tui; through image, panel 2 with brush: II IV V VI Tahia, tahia, kotahi te manu i tau ki te tahuna; through image panel 3 with brush: VII VIII; u.c. panel 3 with brush: Te tangi o te pipiwhararua. Tangirau Hotere; margin below panel 3 with brush:Tau mai; through image panel 4 with brush: IX X XI; margin below panel 4 with brush: Tau mai; through image panel 5 with brush: XII XIII XIV; margin below panel 5 with brush: Tau mai. C. McC, Oct í74.
Creator
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McCahon, Colin
Date Created
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1974
Contributor
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Hotere, Tangirau (Author in quotations or text extracts)
Rights
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Te tangi o te pipiwhararua by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Extent
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5 panels: 1752 x 901 mm, 1770 x 902 mm, 1740 x 905 mm, 1757 x 900 mm & 1758 x 903 mm; assembled to form ca: 1770 x 4710 mm
Medium
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oil on unstretched canvas panels
Language
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mao
Type
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Image
Paintings
Oil paintings
Art
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections
a7758
Spatial Coverage
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Muriwai Beach (N.Z.)
Provenance
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Given by Colin McCahon, Auckland, 1977.
Beaches
Christian art and symbolism
Death in art
Folklore
Image
Legends
Maori
Maori (New Zealand people)
Maori language
Muriwai Beach (N.Z.)
Mythology
Numbers in art
Oil paintings
Paintings
Pictorial works
Pūrākau
Spirits
Stations of the Cross in art
Still Image
Symbolism in art
Wairua
Works of Art
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Title
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Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Description
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This showcase offers a representational sample of the pictures that Dr T. M. Hocken gave in trust for the people of New Zealand. At the time of his death in 1910 he had amassed 437 pictorial items, a collection of more than 4,000 printed volumes, as well as photographs, manuscripts and maps. Collectively these items are the Hocken Library’s founding gift and Dr Hocken’s abiding interest in the history of Southern New Zealand continues to shape what the Hocken collects today and preserves for the future benefit of researchers.
Contributor
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Dr T. M. Hocken
Still Image
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Title
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Advent of the Maori, Christmas, A.D. 1000.
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The advent of the Maori, Christmas, A.D. 1000. Supplement to the Jubilee Christmas number of the Auckland Weekly News Saturday December 21 1889. Steele & Watkins. Wilson & Horton Chromolith Auckland.
Subject
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Maori (New Zealand people)
Legends, Maori
Pūrākau
Mythology, Maori
Description
An account of the resource
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: T.M. Hocken.
Creator
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unknown
Source
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Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Publisher
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Wilson & Horton Chromolith Auckland.
Date Created
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1889
Extent
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218 x 385 mm
Medium
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chromolithograph on paper (pasted to card)
Type
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Image
Chromolithographs
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections - 17,156
a11748
Temporal Coverage
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Nineteenth century
Provenance
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Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Chromolithographs
Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Image
Legends
Maori
Maori (New Zealand people)
Mythology
Nineteenth century
Pūrākau
Still Image
Works of Art