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- Colin John McCahon (/ məˈkɑːn /; 1 August 1919 – 27 May 1987) [ 1 ] was a New Zealand artist whose work over 45 years consisted of various styles, including landscape, figuration, abstraction, and the overlay of painted text.
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Colin John McCahon (/ məˈkɑːn /; 1 August 1919 – 27 May 1987) [ 1 ] was a New Zealand artist whose work over 45 years consisted of various styles, including landscape, figuration, abstraction, and the overlay of painted text.
Colin McCahon is recognised as New Zealand's most significant artist of the 20th century, exploring questions of spiritual faith and religious doubt for more than 40 years. McCahon was largely self-taught, influenced by Romanticism and then Abstract Expressionism.
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Nov 27, 2019 · Colin McCahon (1919-1987) is widely regarded as the most influential New Zealand artist of the twentieth century. In a career spanning almost fifty years, until his death in Auckland in 1987, McCahon developed a profoundly personal visual language that traversed vast thematic and stylistic terrain – including landscape, figuration ...
Apr 14, 2022 · New Zealand artist Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was described after his death as a “major contemporary of Rothko, Newman, Pollock, Twombly and Johns — an artist at their level of achievement”. (Wikimedia Commons)
The seven years that Colin McCahon (1919-87) lived in Titirangi, from 1953 to 1960 (aged 34-40), encompassed the watershed of his career as a painter, both chronologically and in terms of his artistic evolution.
Aug 1, 2009 · Colin McCahon is the most celebrated New Zealand painter of the 20th Century and arguably New Zealand’s greatest artist. His explorations on canvas of his relation to the world and his standing place in New Zealand, squinting into the hard sun, represent defining statements about what it means to be ‘from here’.
Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon’s works became some of the most recognisable and celebrated paintings ever to be produced in New Zealand. Born in Dunedin in 1919, McCahon regularly visited the Dunedin Public Art Gallery with his family during his childhood.
