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- Dick Frizzell
Dick Frizzell began his career as a "renegade pop artist" in the 1970s. His work has always been characterised by a highly skilled handling of paint and an endlessly inventive range of subject matter and styles: faux-naive New Zealand landscapes, figurative still-lifes, comic book characters and witty parodies of modernist abstraction. His taste is conveniently broad and he has a penchant for fondly remembered and well-worn cliches. There is also in his work a sense of exuberance, ironic humour and a baby-boomer nostalgia. An anti-traditionalist, Frizzell often makes a deliberate effort to mix up the categories of high and low art - poking fun at the intellectualisation of "high art" and the existential angst of much New Zealand painting in the art culture of his youth.
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