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Frizzell wrote Dick Frizzell: The Painter (Random House NZ, 2009), with a foreword by art writer Hamish Keith. In 2012, he completed a series of paintings of poems by Sam Hunt.
Painter Dick Frizzell MNZM is best known for his Pop-inspired paintings and prints. His artworks—which combine both fine art influences and low art sources such as comic book illustrations, kitsch Kiwiana icons, signage, and food packaging—have become some of New Zealand's most well-known images.
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Dick Frizzell is one of New Zealand's most prominent and versatile artists. Known for its humour, his work often references the commercial world, pop culture and high-end art. He describes the ‘School Journal’ as “an unofficial history of New Zealand Art”.
Frizzell wrote Dick Frizzell: The Painter (Random House NZ, 2009), with a foreword by art writer Hamish Keith. In 2012, he completed a series of paintings of poems by Sam Hunt.
Artist Dick Frizzell has blazed a unique trail between controversy and commercialism. He talks about angry feminists, tiki tours and linking his name to a famous brand of bread.
Frizzell has mastered nearly every style, naive, cubist, abstract and realist included. His work can best be described as expressionist pop (Warwick Brown) in its appropriation of Kiwiana icons and incorporating them into his often cartoon-like paintings and screenprints.
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Dick Frizzell. Born in Auckland in 1943, Frizzell studied at the Canterbury School of Fine Arts between 1960 and 1963. After a successful career as a commercial artist in advertising, Frizzell has developed a significant position in the fine art world.
