Styles
Colin McCahon is best known for his large-scale 'Word Paintings', completed in the latter portion of his career. One of his initial styles was the 'Early Religious Paintings', which depicted scenes from the Bible in the New Zealand landscape. Indeed, landscape and religion may be read as the abiding themes within his body of work. McCahon moved toward abstraction as his career progressed, but was always concerned with presenting a didactic message for his audience.
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