Colin McCahon, 'Scared', 1976 - Print Te Papa Press nature and rich culture

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Colin McCahon, 'Scared', 1976 - Print Te Papa Press nature and rich cultureColin 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 dark background, to suggest the possibility of