Scared

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Scared

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). Colin 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 da...

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Image

Date created

1976

Creator

Colin McCahon

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/763435

Related subjects

Inscriptions / acrylic paint / paper / paintings / language / writing / Auckland

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