Reclaiming the Other Tribal

Homage By Phillip John O'sullivan

Reclaiming the Other Tribal Phillip O'Sullivan The Luxon Government responding to the legitimate kickback from 100 years of a socialist economy transfers power and funding back to the democratic majority in its fully justifiable claims. These colonial period buildings reassert the legitimate claims of the developers of cultural value in our country. Europeans and other migrants contributed the collective industrial culture including its artists examples and generous ambitions of bodies of artworks, collective skill and. advanced civilizationaL skills to speed up the existing conditions by several millennia. We forget that artists of European background and practices were now almost immediately available the young uncivilised economy of our primitive and rugged country. Artists like Degas or Renoir who had produced alone individually bodies of work aided by their Continental technology like pre built canvas stretchers mass produced and tinned oil paint in folding tubes that helped artists create art collections greater than the entire corpus of our home colonists put together. As well as Railways, wharves, ships, travel and comfort the young land lacked. This sparseness represents the black and bleak in New Zealand as well as the lonely shortage of appreciation English people sought from an unyielding stubborn landscape. Which has been largely won for us by our landscape photographers and artists, cartographers and appreciators everywhere from Maori and Pakeha contributors alike.