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This item is an image. It was created by Colin McCahon on or around the date 1976.
This is the best description of this item that we could find: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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