Theo Schoon: A Biography Museum collection print an allegory of the artist’s

an allegory of the artist’s life

which is enhanced by the close cropping of Bensemann’s figure

Kat Merewether

Her research interests include contemporary social history

Theo Schoon: A Biography Museum collection print an allegory of the artist’sEmigr artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering, and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultural periods and places, where what it meant to be modern in New Zealand were being debated and articulated in art, literature, music, and theater. The art he pioneered and promotedMaori rock drawings, the drawings of a psychiatric patient, Maori moko and kowhaiwhai, the abstract patterns of geothermal