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[ 0 => ''''Ten Big Paintings''' was an exhibition developed by the Auckland City Art Gallery (now known as [[Auckland Art Gallery|Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki)]]<nowiki/>and in 1971 and toured through New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=February 1971 |title=Ten Big Paintings |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/media/uploads/2017_10/AGMANZ_News_Volume_2_Number_8_February_1971.pdf |journal=AGMANZ News |volume=2 |issue=8 |pages=7}}</ref>', 1 => '', 2 => '== History ==', 3 => 'In May 1969, in anticipation of the opening of the new Edmiston Wing<ref>{{Cite web |title=Major Projects |url=http://www.edmistontrust.org.nz/major-projects/auckland-art-gallery/ |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> at the Auckland Art Gallery, [[Hamish Keith]] and the staff developed the concept for an exhibition of large paintings on canvas.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ten Big Paintings |url=https://mccahon.co.nz/node/15495 |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> (''Ten Big Paintings'' was commissioned by Keith who was the gallery’s Keeper of Collections.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keith |first=Hamish |title=Native Wit   |publisher=Random House |year=2008 |isbn=9781869418434 |pages=233}}</ref> There was a recognition at the time that the scale of painting in [[New Zealand]] was small compared to contemporary painting overseas. The [[Museum of Modern Art]] had an exhibition ''Large-scale Modern Painting'' devoted to the idea, as far back as 1947.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Large-Scale Modern Paintings |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2811 |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> Keith had been impressed by Colin McCahon painting the large-scale ''Northland Panels'' on his return from a visit to the United States in 1958.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Gordon H. |title=Colin McCahon: Artist |publisher=AH & AW Reed |year=1984 |isbn=0589014862 |pages=92-94}}</ref> The painter Ross Ritchie who was also working at the gallery had experience of painting billboards and was familiar with the established size for these works as being 10 x 20 feet (3.1 x 6.1 meters).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hanfling |first=Edward |date=Winter 2017 |title=Inside the Engine Room: A conversation with Edward Hanfling |journal=Art New Zealand |issue=162}}</ref> This then was the size selected for the five part stretcher mounted canvases that were sent out to the artists and, as the gallery director Gill Docking noted in the catalogue introduction, ‘Each painter was left with complete autonomy over their work but was given a chance to do something which, under normal circumstances, could be uneconomic.’<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ten Big Paintings |url=https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/artgallery/assets/media/1971-ten-big-paintings-catalogue.pdf |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> The exhibition was opened at the Auckland Art Gallery by [[Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy|Princess Alexandra]] on the 9 February<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2 February 1971 |title=Gallery has big plans |pages=13 |work=Press (Christchurch)}}</ref> and ran to 28 March after which it toured to [[Wellington]], [[Christchurch]] and [[Dunedin]]. The paintings were literally too big for the [[National Art Gallery, New Zealand|National Art Gallery]] and were shown next door at the Academy of Fine Arts<ref>{{Cite news |last=James |first=Judith |date=29 July 1971 |title=Big Art Comes to the Capital |work=The Dominion}}</ref> and too large also for the [[Robert McDougall Art Gallery]] and part of the exhibition was shown at the [[Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ten Big Paintings |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/big-paintings |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> ', 4 => '', 5 => '== The artists and the paintings ==', 6 => '[[Don Driver]] ''Five Part Work''. The painting was gifted to the [[Govett-Brewster Art Gallery]] by Driver in 1973<ref>{{Cite web |title=Five Art Piece |url=https://govettbrewster.com/collection/73-17) |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> Driver also painted a smaller version of the work ''Dimension No 6'' that is in the collection of [[Te Manawa]] in Palmerston North.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dimension No 6 |url=https://collection.temanawa.co.nz/objects/32228/driver-donald-sinclair |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> ', 7 => '', 8 => 'Michael Eaton ''Untitled'' 1970-71. Unlike the other painters Eaton turned the four units of the large canvas on their sides to create an elongated landscape 5 x 40 feet (1.5 x 12.2 meters)', 9 => '', 10 => 'Robert Ellis ''Journey''. Art critic Hamish Keith described Ellis’s painting as, ‘expanding the image of megalomaniacal roading to a planetary scale, and out of it [making] a powerful and dynamic image of intersecting thousand lane motorways against a richly mosaic surface.’<ref>{{Cite news |last=Keith |first=Hamish |date=February 1971 |title=Gallery’s Gamble Paid Off: 7 Hits out of 10 |work=Auckland Star}}</ref> ', 11 => '', 12 => '[[Patrick Hally|Patrick Hanly]] ''Whence come we? What are we? Whither go we?'' Hanly was unhappy with his painting and on its return from the ''Ten Big Paintings'' exhibition he separated the three panels painted over his work using one of the panels featuring a standing figure as a large kite.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hayley |first=Russell |title=Hanly: a New Zealand Artist |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |year=1989 |isbn=0340431296 |pages=167}}</ref> ', 13 => '', 14 => '[[Ralph Hotere]] ''February May and the Birds of Ice the Moon Drowns in its Voice of Water.'' Hotere’s painting was purchased by the [[Dunedin Public Art Gallery]] in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |title=February May and the Birds of Ice the Moon Drowns in its Voices of Water |url=https://collection.dunedin.art.museum/objects/6976/february-may-and-the-birds-of-ice-the-moon-drowns-in-its-voices-of-water |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> ', 15 => '', 16 => 'Colin McCahon ''Gate III.'' McCahon painted this work at the Auckland University Art School where he was still teaching''.''<ref>{{Cite book |title=Colin McCahon. a question of faith: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 30 August - 10 November 2002 ... |date=2002 |publisher=Potton [u.a.] |isbn=978-0-908802-91-3 |editor-last=Bloem |editor-first=Marja |location=Nelson |pages=215 |editor-last2=Browne |editor-first2=Martin |editor-last3=McCahon |editor-first3=Colin |editor-last4=Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam}}</ref> In 1972 historian [[Tim Beaglehole]] arranged the purchase of ''Gate III'' for [[Victoria University of Wellington|Victoria University]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Victoria’s Art: A University Collection |publisher=Adam Art Gallery for Victoria University |year=2005 |isbn=1877309052 |pages=17}}</ref> The purchase was made via McCahon’s Wellington dealer [[Peter McLeavey]] at a cost of $4,000.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 September 1972  |title=Highest Price for a NZ Painting |pages=7 |work=Evening Post}}</ref> ', 17 => '', 18 => '[[Milan Mrkusich]] ''Untitled.'' Like many of the other artists in the exhibition Mrkusich’s studio was too small to accommodate even one of the four panels. Instead each panel was painted individually in the family’s lounge, Mrkusich having first removed all the furniture.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wright |first=Alan |title=Mrkusich: The Art of Transformation |last2=Hanfling |first2=Edward |publisher=Auckland University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9781869404376 |pages=78}}</ref> ', 19 => '', 20 => '[[Don Peebles]] ''Painting 1970.'' Peebles and Michael Eaton were the only two South Island artists included in the exhibition.<ref name=":0" />', 21 => '', 22 => 'Ross Ritchie ''Inch.'' Art critic T. J. McNamara said of Ritchie’s work that it, ‘…dances lines around the canvas in glowing colours and happy areas of paint advance and recede in a delightful fashion. The picture goes a long way toward fulfilling the promise Ross Ritchie has shown in recent years.’<ref>{{Cite news |last=McNamara |first=T.J. |date=11 February 1971 |title=Ten Big Paintings: Masterly Work at City Gallery |work=New Zealand Herald}}</ref> ', 23 => '', 24 => 'Wong Sing Tai ''Dedicated to Amoghasiddhi.''  When the exhibition showed at the National Art Gallery in Wellington (now Te Papa Tongarewa) the photographer [[Ans Westra]] took a number of images of the works including the painting by Wong Sing Tai.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Big Paintings' exhibition by New Zealand artists at the National Art Gallery |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/37152889?search%5Bi%5D%5Bname_authority_id%5D=-80409&search%5Bpath%5D=items |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> At 28 Sing Tai was the youngest of the artists chosen.', 25 => '', 26 => '== Big paintings ==', 27 => 'In 1971 as ''Ten Big Paintings'' toured the country the biggest painting on canvas or board in New Zealand was almost certainly Colin McCahon’s ''Practical Religion'' at just under 17 square meters.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Practical religion: the resurrection of Lazarus showing Mount Martha, 1969 |url=https://www.mccahon.co.nz/cm001019 |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> McCahon himself once referred to it as a ‘monster’<ref>{{Cite book |title=Colin McCahon / a survey exhibition |publisher=Auckland Art Gallery |year=1972 |pages=37}}</ref> Before this was painted the biggest painting on canvas in the country was probably [[Frank Brangwyn]]’s ''The card players: agricultural workers at rest''<ref>{{Cite web |title=The card players: agricultural workers at rest |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/42358 |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> at the National Gallery (now Te Papa Tongarewa) in Wellington. That came in at 7.7 square meters. At the Auckland Art Gallery ''The arrival of the Maori,''<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Arrival of the Māoris in New Zealand |url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/166/the-arrival-of-the-maoris-in-new-zealand |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> [[C. F. Goldie|C F Goldie]] and John Louis Steele’s version of [[Théodore Géricault|Gercault’]]<nowiki/>s ''[[The Raft of the Medusa|Raft of the Medusa]]'' was wall-filling 4.9 square metres but tiny compared to the Gercault original, at 35 square meters.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Raft of the Medusa |url=https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/15671/raft-of-the-medusa |access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref> In terms of modern painting the average size of works in the ''Ten Big Paintings'' exhibition was 18.91 square meters with McCahon’s ''Gate III  ''at 32.5 square meters. A good deal larger than [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]]’s ''[[Guernica (Picasso)|Guernica]]'' at 27.3 square meters but well shy of [[James Rosenquist|James Rosenquist']]<nowiki/>s ''F-111,''<ref>{{Cite web |title=F111 |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79805 |access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref> ''('' <nowiki>https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79805</nowiki> '')'' a massive 80 square meters.', 28 => '', 29 => '== References ==', 30 => '[[Category:Art exhibitions in New Zealand]]', 31 => '[[Category:New Zealand art]]' ]