Colin McCahon, 'Scared', 1976 - Print xmas

Colin McCahon, 'Scared', 1976 - Print xmasColin McCahon developed a keen sense of purpose as an artist very early in life. In 1939, at the age of twenty, he wrote: The force of painting as propaganda for social reform is immense if properly wielded 1 Concerned with the human condition, he maintained a powerful desire to communicate even as he pursued an increasingly austere painterly vision. In his late work he used white paint, emerging from a dark background, to suggest the possibility of

including Canadian painting and contemporary British ideas of modern art

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This facemask features detail from Rita Angus’s watercolour painting Waterlilies (1950)

The initiative and much of the early funding for the fellowship is thought to have come from poet

The youngest is 14 and the eldest is in her mid-70s

Tree demonstrates the heightened intensity with which Angus perceived objects in the natural environment

This accessible new edition of the award-winning classic Buller’s Birds of New Zealand includes the complete set of 95 artworks from both editions of A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Walter Buller and the subsequent supplement

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protests against apartheid and nuclear ship visits

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