What style (as in realism, impressionism, cubism, etc) is artist Robyn Kahukiwas work?
Early work is naturalistc. Later paintings, sculpture etc. are Neo-Expressionist (Post-Modern). (b Sydney, 14 Sept 1941). New Zealand painter. She was essentially self-taught as a painter, and her return to New Zealand in 1960 focused her artistic development on her Maori cultural heritage. A series of images of women in Maori myth provided the theme for a travelling exhibition (1983) and publication (1984) entitled Wahine toa (Women of prestige); the precisely modulated naturalistic image of Hinetitama (‘Dawn maiden’) (1980; Palmerston North, Manawatu A.G.), cloaked in symbolic references to her position within the pantheon of Maori gods, is characteristic of the series. A carved, semi-naturalistic image of a child-suckling mother from a traditional east coast Maori meeting-house provided the inspiration for a dramatic change of style in 1985. A limited palette of broad planes of juxtaposed colour, applied to large unframed canvases, empowered Kahukiwa’s ancestral images. The ‘aspecti
