Tuesday 1 March 2011

Arts Week focus- Phillip Clairmont

Every year the year 7&8's have an arts week where we explore a specific artists work and delve into the complexities of their lives. This year we are focusing on New Zealand Painter Phillip Clairmont. In particular we are exploring his lively painting " scarred couch", using the techniques he used to create an artwork of our own.


Clairmont remains one of NZ's most remarkable and energetic artists. His expressionist-style of painting turned ordinary household items and interiors into objects writhing and bursting with energy fragmented almost to abstraction. Clairmont has his own very distinctive style of painting where the pictures seem to move around the page in what he describes as an 'anthropomorphic' style.



have a look below at how room 22 created their own unique versions of Phillip Clairmonts 'scarred couch' painting ( currently hung in the Te Papa gallery.
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