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Stalagmites – Stalactites
Theo Schoon1964
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland, New Zealand
Stalagmites–Stalactites combines organic patterns and forms from the natural world with a European modernist style. The vertical black tendrils of the stalagmites and stalactites grow above and hang below the crisp horizontal lines in a Bauhaus palette of red, blue, grey and yellow.
Theo Schoon’s art combines various media and artistic practices. He understood the Bauhaus concept of the amalgamation of art and craft, and wrote that ‘the distinction between fine arts & crafts has faded away. Artists have become glass blowers, jewellers, weavers and potters’.
Details
- Title: Stalagmites – Stalactites
- Creator: Theo Schoon
- Creator Lifespan: 1915 - 1985
- Creator Nationality: New Zealand; Dutch
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Birth Place: Kebumen, Java
- Date Created: 1964
- Physical Dimensions: w1123 x h1217 x d26 mm (entire)
- Artist biography: Theo Schoon, a painter, photographer and sculptor, was born in Kebumen, Java in 1915. From 1931–5 he undertook tuition at the Rotterdam Art Academy, and in 1939 accompanied his parents to New Zealand, enrolling for a short period at Christchurch’s Canterbury College School of Art. After moving to Wellington in 1942, he worked as a studio assistant to Spencer Digby, the city’s pre-eminent portrait photographer. Between 1946 and 1948, Schoon studied Māori rock art with the support of a government grant under the auspices of the Canterbury Museum. He wrote that the drawings in the South Canterbury rock shelters were ‘New Zealand’s Oldest Art Galleries’.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1989
- External Link: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- Medium: oil on board
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