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Hawaiian art. Kuʻu Hae Aloha (My Beloved Flag), Hawaiian cotton quilt from Waimea, before 1918, Honolulu Museum of Art. The Hawaiian archipelago consists of 137 islands in the Pacific Ocean that are far from any other land. Polynesians arrived there one to two thousand years ago, and in 1778 Captain James Cook and his crew became the first ...
Herbert Kawainui Kāne (June 21, 1928 – March 8, 2011) was a Hawaiian historian and artist. He is considered one of the principal figures in the renaissance of Hawaiian culture in the 1970s. His work focused on the seafaring traditions of the ancestral peoples of Hawaiʻi. Kāne played a key role in demonstrating that Hawaiian culture arose ...
Hawaiian architecture is a distinctive architectural style developed and employed primarily in the Hawaiian Islands. Though based on imported Western styles, unique Hawaiian traits make Hawaiian architecture stand alone against other styles. Hawaiian architecture reflects the history of the islands from antiquity through the kingdom era, from ...
The traditional Hawaiian religion is a polytheistic animistic religion. Its beliefs encompass the presence of spirits in objects such as the waves and the sky. The Hawaiian religion believes in four gods; Kāne, Kanaloa, Kū, and Lono. Kāne is the God of creation, Kanaloa is the God of the ocean, Ku is the God of war and male pursuits, and ...
ʻAhu ʻula. Haalelea's Feather Cape. The ʻahu ʻula (feather cape or cloak in the Hawaiian language, literally "red/sacred garment for the upper torso" [1]), [2] and the mahiole (feather helmet) were symbols of the highest rank of the chiefly aliʻi[3] class of ancient Hawaii.
Dietrich Varez (28 March 1939 – 14 August 2018 [1]) was an iconoclastic printmaker-painter. His work is among the most widely recognized of any artist in Hawaii. [2] A long-time resident of the Big Island, he is known primarily for scenes of Hawaiian mythology and of traditional Hawaiian life and stylized designs from nature.
Henry Bianchini. Henry Bianchini (born 1935) is a Hawaiian-based sculptor, painter and printmaker. His art career spans over fifty years, and has multiple public sculptures featured in the state of Hawaii and in collections internationally. His art pieces have been represented in multiple solo, group, invitational and juried shows.
Arthur Johnsen. Arthur Johnsen (August 27, 1952 – November 15, 2015) [1][2] was an American artist. Born and raised on Oahu and living most of his post-university life on the Big Island of Hawaii, he is known for his impressionistic paintings and murals of Hawaiiana. He is best known internationally for his 2003 painting of the volcano ...