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		<title>NZ&#8217;s Greatest Artist Suffered Rejection</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colin McCahon (1920 &#8211; 1987), arguably New Zealand&#8217;s greatest artist, was described by Gordon Brown as &#8220;a powerful and unique force in New Zealand painting.&#8221;  Yet for many years he suffered from misunderstanding and rejection.  Many still miss the point of his work.

McCahon has also been referred to as &#8220;The Prophet&#8221;, and it&#8217;s not unusual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Smither: St Francis in Ecstasy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This second painting of Saint Francis by Michael Smither depicts the patron saint of ecology &#8211; Smither&#8217;s favorite saint &#8211; in a state of ecstasy in the presence of nature. Like many NZ artists, Michael is strongly influenced by the landscape.

This painting is the second half of a diptych that also features Saint Francis Receiving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motives For Destroying Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first of 2 articles based on BBC TV&#8217;s new art series &#8220;Art Attack&#8221;,  Lawrence Pollard, the series presenter, draws on some historical examples to explain attacks on both secular and christian artworks, and the destructive element in  the work of some modern artists.

This is a very thought-provoking article, both from a historical point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art From Death Row</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Art show with a difference in Oakland CA showcases art created by death row residents at San Quentin, &#8220;Oakland North&#8221; &#8211; a news project of U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism &#8211; reports today.

The show reveals an amazing diversity of subject-matter and styles and a high level of skill and inspiration in the exhibitors.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Smither: &#8220;I Would Have Been a Franciscan&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If I hadn&#8217;t become a painter, I would have been a Franciscan,&#8221; is how Christian artist Michael Smither described himself in an interview with the New Zealand Women&#8217;s Weekly in 1969.

Michael made several paintings of Saint Francis &#8211; his favorite saint.  This one is called &#8220;Saint Francis Receives the Stigmata&#8221;, and while it definitely is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Smither: &#8220;Art Gives You An Emotional Map&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Art gives you an emotional map of your environment.&#8221; Michael Smither 4 Dec 1971. Michael Smither has long been one of my favorite New Zealand artists.

It was his landscapes that first spoke to me, but he has other brilliant work as well.  He&#8217;s a Christian artist, and an artist who is happy to talk about [...]]]></description>
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