1 gen 1890 anni - Tamati Waka Nene

Descrizione:

1890 CE
Oil on canvas
Gottfried Lindauer (artist)
Taonga tuku iho - treasures passed down from ancestors
Waka Nene was already dead when the photo of him was painted (posthumously after the death of the originator.)
Portrait holds “his spirit”
His style
Realistic
Three dimensional
Beautiful contrasts of light and shadow
Lindauer may have traced projected image onto canvas at his process