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Trevor Moffitt (1936 – 11 April 2006) was a New Zealand artist, arguably one of the country's leading narrative painters. Moffitt's expressionist paintings reveal the lives and stories of ordinary working New Zealanders. ==Life== Moffitt grew up in the gold mining township of Waikaia, in Southland. His family were a poor rural family, where of necessity a hunter gatherer mentality prevailed. Moffitt's father Bert was a casual rural labourer, but by the mid-1940s, within a decade of Trevor's birth, the writing was on the wall for such roles. :''"The moment concrete posts came in, header harvesters came in, machine shearing came in, (father ) couldn't change or adapt or somehow be part of that. So what had been there for years and years on a seasonal basis just disappeared in a year or two"''.〔(Te Ara )〕 Moffitt's relationship with his father was strained when he refused to leave school and his father didn't speak to him for many years, leaving him to finance his own schooling, clothing and other necessities. Married and had children. Trevor Moffitt supported his family as a secondary school art teacher, eventually heading the large art department at Burnside High School in Christchurch. He resigned from teaching in the 1980s, to focus on his painting. He died in 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trevor Moffitt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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