New Zealand: Auckland – NZ Artist Colin McCahon Word Paintings
By glenda. Filed in Art, Culture, Exhibition, Museum, New Zealand, Travel, Walking Tour |
Starting way back in the 1950’s New Zealand artist Colin McCahon used words to create paintings. Many of these word paintings related to his faith and take texts from the bible. To emphasize thoughts, he uses capitalization, density and cursive writing, to suggest to you how you might read the text. This painting is thought to be his last one as it was found upside-down on the floor after he died.
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