Karakia

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Title

Karakia

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

At just over a metre and a half high by a metre wide, Karakia is at the larger end of the scale at which Gordon Walters worked. It is a size that gives the optical pulse of the painting — the interplay of black and white, of circle and line — a kind of quiet grandeur. It also allows the painting to fill the viewer’s perceptual field in a way that turns the activity of seeing into a bodily experience. Scale is important in understanding Karakia in another way, too, given the intense labour Wal...

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Format

Image

Date created

1977

Creator

Gordon Walters

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/42379

Related subjects

acrylic paint / polyvinyl acetate / canvas / paintings / Christchurch

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