Rita Angus 🇳🇿🎂 nació el 12 de marzo de 1908. Flight (1969) 🖼
FELIZMENTE
No tengo nada en la cabeza
sino unas pocas ideas
equivocadas por cierto
y una memoria sin tiempo ni lugar
nada para poner
nada para dejar
Innomimada nada
en lo que fue mi cabeza...☀️🌻
Blanca Varela 🇵🇪🙏🏻
falleció el #12Marzo de 2009
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Rita Angus (1908-1970) Paintings
& Rita Angus - A Goddess of Mercy (1945-1947)
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Birthday Remembrances. Today, Mar 12, 1908 – #RitaAngus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970) was born.
Rita Angus, self portrait, c. 1964
Rita Angus, self portrait, c. 1964 #artonbluesky #makeblueskybeautifulwithart
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Black-and-white photograph of a mid-rise city building with a large mural of kiwi artist Rita Angus, painted by Askew One. Angus used to frequent a coffee shop near this location when she lived in Wellington.
Te Aro, 2025
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In 1938, Rita Angus quit her job as an illustrator for Ballantynes department store to focus on painting. Marjorie Marshall was one of a number of close women friends who helped Angus through the late 1930s, when she often lacked a steady income or fixed address. Angus went to stay with fellow artist Marshall and her husband William at their house in Wanaka, and the two women spent days sketching the Central Otago landscape. Angus produced a large body of watercolors on the trip, several of which were exhibited in a show by the Christchurch collective “The Group,” in August of that year. This stylized painting combines two main strands of Angus’ practice – portraiture and landscape – in a work of particular boldness and intensity. Through bright slabs of color and light, she evokes both the drama of the Central Otago Alps and the affection and warmth of her friendship with Marshall. Central Otago was a revelation to Angus – a powerful landscape fit for the ambition of her paintings. She returned there many more times to paint. Marshall is depicted with a light tan scarf draped over her head. Her expression is neutral/serene. Her attire suggests everyday rural wear: a dark green jacket and an orange-red blouse. Her physical and facial features are emphasized using bold brushstrokes and a clear tonal quality. Angus uses distinct, broad brushstrokes and vibrant bold colors. Emphasis is on creating shape and volume through color. As was typical of her practice, Angus made small changes to the portrait of Marjorie Marshall in 1943. Angus rarely sold her paintings and would often return to them over the course of many years, making small adjustments to the color or composition. This painting was originally intended to be accompanied by a self-portrait of Angus in the same landscape. That self-portrait was never finished, yet is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia as “Self-portrait (Wanaka).”
“Marjorie Marshall” by Rita Angus (New Zealander) - Oil on canvas adhered to plywood / 1938-1939 & 1943 - Te Papa (Wellington, New Zealand) #WomenInArt #FemaleArtist #WomensArt #PortraitofaWoman #ArtText #WomanArtist #TePapa #MuseumofNewZealand #art #RitaAngus #MarjorieMarshall #CentralOtagoAlps
Rita Angus 🎂🇳🇿👩🏼🎨
nace #12marzo de 1908
En su obra destacan los retratos y paisajes, con un estilo de colores planos y contornos fuertes 🖼
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Birthday Remembrances. Today, Mar 12, 1908 – #RitaAngus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970) was born.
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Rita Angus portrays herself as a “modern woman” – urbane, stylish, and in complete control of her own destiny. Everything in the painting is carefully staged, from the cigarette – billowing perfect smoke rings – to the polka-dot forest green scarf - to the clover green beret, casually clasped over her elbow. Angus stares boldly out of the picture, a challenging yet guarded figure. Throughout her life Angus drew and painted images of herself, many of them informed by a very personal symbolism. Here, she portrays herself nonchalantly clasping her beret – a reference perhaps to her chosen vocation of artist – and, daringly, smoking a cigarette. The result is a potent image of a truly modern, independent woman. Her choice of an urban background is also telling, although the rhythmic, rounded folds of her heavy coat are reminiscent of her popular landscape paintings. She is considered one of New Zealand’s foremost regionalist artists. She painted iconic Canterbury, Otago and, later, Wellington landscapes that helped to define the perception of New Zealand. She also painted direct and perceptive portraits of friends, family and fellow artists, sometimes against the landscape and occasionally incorporating mysterious symbolic details. Angus was one of the earliest and most influential exponents of the Modernist style, which was characterised in her work by simplified, flattened and layered forms, clear outlines and flat, strong colour. She first exhibited this work in 1937 under the title “Portrait”, so that only those who knew her would recognise it as a self-image. Today, it is one of her best-known paintings.
Self Portrait by Rita Angus (New Zealander) - Oil on canvas / c. 1937 - Dunedin Public Art Gallery (New Zealand) #womeninart #womanartist #art #portrait #smoking #femaleartist #womensart #fineart #DunedinPublicArtGallery #ritaangus #selfportrait #portraitofawoman #newzealandart #femmefatale #smoker
