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Colin McCahon

Colin McCahon (1930 - 1977) was active/lived in New Zealand.  Colin McCahon is known for Painting and sculpture.

Reflecting McCahon's increasingly dispirited state during the closing years of his vast and prodigious career,  a final series of four works, drawing upon texts from Ecclesiastes, poignantly illustrate the artist's ultimate collapse of faith in faith itself. In stark contrast to the majority of his oeuvre which had hitherto optimistically asserted a 'Victory over Death', now - consumed by heavy drinking and bitterness at years of public misunderstanding and denigration, as well as an increasing paranoia and suspicion of even long-time supporters, and most fundamentally, his debilitating battle against dementia - McCahon emphasized the futility of human effort and indeed, profound uncertainty as to God's true nature.

Painted in his distinctive cursive white script on black, almost featureless backgrounds, thus the compositions offer admonishments specifically chosen by the artist to elucidate the bleakness 'raging inside his   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5812 characters.]  Artist bio

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