STATEMENT
Kane Cunningham
“Landscape painting at the moment has lost its way. It is struggling to find a vision of its direction. It has been subjugated to a new media frenzy driven on by dealers, art collectors and young artists hoping to become art stars. There is no unifying intellectual perspective and framework to support landscape painting. However I believe this will change, thinking will rotate towards landscape painting as means of social and political expression. Artists will locate themselves within a tradition and history that offers expression of the sublime but also an expression of anger, reflection and deeper meaning.”
“Landscape painting can still offer a fresh insight into issues that affect farmers, fishermen and communities across the country. It can say something about the human condition, about adversity and survival. Historians will look back in a 100 years time to review through painting the impact on society through an artist's perspective social and political upheaval.”
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