art
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Some ‘Great Pines’ of Wellington
Paul Cézanne, one of the most original artists of the impressionist movement, produced a number of ‘tree paintings’. Perhaps the most well-known, painted over the six years of 1890-96, is The Great Pine based on a tree in Provence: Source: Paul Cézanne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons There are a number of pine species endemic…
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The Colonnade Effect: Rows and Double Avenues of Phoenix Palms
We’ve come across a few Phoenix palms (Phoenix canariensis) in previous posts and I promised to write more on them. The use of the palm in New Zealand has a long and varied history, so to keep this post short I’ll refer readers to some earlier posts on the topic (in another blog), and to…
