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Dick Frizzell was born on 20 August, 1943 in New Zealand, is a New Zealand artist (born 1943). Discover Dick Frizzell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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Born 20 August, 1943
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1943

Richard John Frizzell (born 1943) is a New Zealand artist known for his pop art paintings and prints.

His work often features Kiwiana iconography combined with motifs from Māori art traditions, such as the tiki and tā moko.

He is based in Auckland.

Frizzell does not stay within one particular style, and often adopts unfashionable painting styles.

Thus, he can be compared to artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Hartigan, Ian Scott, and Andy Warhol.

Frizzell's best-known work uses as its base the "Four Square man", an advertising character for the Four Square grocery chain.

Frizzell is also responsible for the lithograph 'Mickey to Tiki, Tu Meke'.

This has now become a best selling print in New Zealand.

It portrays a cartoon 'Mickey Mouse' changing in stages to a 'tiki.' This image is used on a popular tee-shirt, released by the Christchurch Art Gallery.

Frizzell has become a point of discussion on indigenous art and the misuse of symbols.

1960

Frizzell trained at the Ilam School of Fine Arts of the University of Canterbury from 1960 to 1963, studying under artists such as Rudi Gopas and Russell Clark.

After this he worked in advertising for many years, and it is through this that he gained his appreciation for the advertising characters he uses in his work.

1992

Frizzell's exhibition Tiki in November 1992 at Auckland's Gow Langsford Gallery aroused controversy for his series of paintings reworking the tiki image to resemble subjects as varied as Casper the Friendly Ghost and a Picasso abstract.

1997

The major retrospective Dick Frizzell: Portrait of a Serious Artiste of 1997 also attracted some controversy, somewhat due to the inclusion of Grocer with Moko (1992).

This contentious work depicted the Four Square man with facial moko, which offended some viewers.

Frizzell became known for his use of Tiki in his works.

One of his famous pieces 'Goofy Tiki Study' is now in the care of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Goofy Tiki Study is a Gouache and pencil on paper work, that depicts a stylised hei tiki with large lettering proclaiming “Goofy Tiki”.

The work responds to the wealth of ‘low’ art produced for tourism that can be found all throughout New Zealand, that appropriates and exploits Māori art imagery while ignoring the deeper symbolism and cultural significance.

In this work Frizzell is creating a study for a series of ‘low’ art paintings he created to fill a perceived void in the art world at the time.

The works created by Frizzell became highly commercialised and widely spread through New Zealand, which spearheaded a new wave of appropriation to occur as once again it became popular to commandeer Māori imagery with little regard to the culture behind it.

2004

In the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours, Frizzell was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts.

Though he is best known for his cartoon-derived work, Frizzell is also known as a painter of photorealistic landscapes and still life.

2009

Frizzell has contributed designs to Esther Diamond linen company, has released several varieties of "Frizzell Wines," and designed the cover and several illustrations for The Great New Zealand Songbook (2009).

Frizzell wrote Dick Frizzell: The Painter (Random House NZ, 2009), with a foreword by art writer Hamish Keith.

2012

In 2012, he completed a series of paintings of poems by Sam Hunt.

At the opening of the exhibition of those paintings on 7 February 2012, Frizzell said that he and Hunt had, in their respective paintings and poems, committed the ultimate "sin", the "sin of being understood".

Frizzell is represented by Gow Langsford Gallery in Auckland, the Central Art Gallery in Christchurch, and Milford Galleries in Dunedin and Queenstown.

2019

His landscapes, often views of rural New Zealand as seen from narrow country roads, have been the subject of several exhibitions, among them Out of Alex, at Dunedin's Milford Gallery in 2019.

Frizzell is a brother of politician Steve Chadwick.

Frizzell has three children, including Josh Frizzell, a television and advertising director, and Otis Frizzell, an artist and half of hiphop music duo Slave & Otis.