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Height
600
Bit Depth
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Title
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Works by Colin McCahon
Description
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Colin McCahon is recognized as one of New Zealand’s foremost painters for his inventive and visionary contribution to art. He lived from 1919 to 1987, his career spanning four decades of the Twentieth Century. His landscapes reflect his environmental concerns, but also a recognition of the raw essence of a young country, and an ability to portray New Zealand in a unique and iconic way. Religious and moral issues are explored throughout McCahon’s work, as evidenced by his use of Christian imagery. Another of McCahon's interests was poetry, and he became the first New Zealand artist to incorporate words and numbers in his work.
Contributor
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Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Still Image
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Title
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The Blessed Virgin compared to a jug of pure water and the infant Jesus to a lamp.
Subject
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Art and religion
Christian art and symbolism
Jesus Christ
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Symbolism in art
Words in art
Christian art and symbolism
Crosses in art
Symbolism in art
Art, Abstract
Description
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Married and living with his wife and young son near Nelson in 1946-48, McCahon turned from depicting landscapes to Christian imagery. By synthesizing disparate elements - portraiture, still life and symbolism (the lamp and jug) with words McCahon emphasized that his works had a message.
<p>Purity and the innocence of childhood are memorialised in this momentous post-war work but it also carries art historical and filmic references. <em>The Virgin Compared</em>, McCahon revealed, owes its being both to the grisly sixteenth century painter Grunewald and to that cruel and beautiful film, <em>Open City</em>. Director Rossellini explained his aim in that film as being to show that acts of heroism and human kindness obviously spring from faith, and the brutalities of war from cynicism and absence of moral code.</p>
<p>McCahon's work was difficult to sell and was often ridiculed when it was exhibited. The religious paintings in particular attracted derisory comments from critics such as A.R.D. Fairburn who described them as being like graffiti on the walls of some celestial lavatory.</p>
<p>Formerly in the collection of Charles Brasch, this painting was reproduced in <em>Landfall, </em> the literary magazine he edited and used to help promote artistic reputations. Very few understood the painters need to map the relationship between man and his God as John Caselberg describes it, but without their crucial support McCahon would not have continued painting into the 1950s and beyond.</p>
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: McCahon Nov ’48; through image with brush: the Blessed Virgin Compared to a jug of pure Water and the infant Jesus to a lamp.
Creator
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McCahon, Colin
Date Created
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1948
Rights
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The Blessed Virgin compared to a jug of pure water and the infant Jesus to a lamp by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Extent
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1053 x 805 mm
Medium
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oil on canvas stretched on board
Language
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eng
Type
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Image
Still Image
Paintings
Oil paintings
Art
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections - 20,924
a5431
Temporal Coverage
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Twentieth century
Provenance
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Given by Dr Charles Brasch, Dunedin, 1963.
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Genre
Portraits
Abstract art
Art and religion
Blessed Virgin
Christian art and symbolism
Crosses in art
Image
Jesus Christ
Mary
Oil paintings
Paintings
Saint
Still Image
Symbolism in art
Twentieth century
Words in art
Works of Art