James Nairn and the New Zealand Plein Air Impressionist Move
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| Sun 29 Jan ’12, 1:00pm–2:00pm |
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Where: Rotorua Museum, Queens Drive, Government Gardens, Rotorua Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
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- Admission: Free
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Impressionist artists were publicly ridiculed by critics when they exhibited their spectacularly spontaneous paintings. In this talk curator Jane Vial will discuss James Nairn, the ‘father’ of New Zealand’s Impressionist movement and the avant-garde painters that developed this unique style.
Image: Silverstream at Noon, James Nairn, 1890s, oil on canvas. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum. Gift of Edward Gilberd.
Free with admission to Museum.
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