Street corner

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Title

Street corner

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

In this painting of a surburban street corner by Richard Killeen, men and women wear interchangeable identities and expressions. While working on Street Corner, Killeen used full-sized paper cut-outs of people, which he constructed on his studio wall and then transferred to the canvas. This technique assisted him in achieving the graphic precision of the image, which also relates to an awareness of pop art. The suburbs and the cityImmediately before Street Corner, Killeen had painted a number...

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Format

Image

Date created

1969

Creator

Richard Killeen

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/69264

Related subjects

City & town life / People / oil paint / canvas / paintings / Auckland

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