Sun Tree Beginning
Sun Tree Beginning
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Artist
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Production Date
1993
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Medium
acrylic, wax crayon, and oil stick on board
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Size
2400 x 2400 mm
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Credit
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 1993
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Accession Number
C1994/1/435.1-2
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Accession Date
Nov 1993
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Department
New Zealand Art
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Classification
Painting
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Collection
Chartwell
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Subjects
abstraction, trees
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Description
Sun Tree Beginning layers images and signs. A tree of life, whose raw, fleshy form comes from a 12th-century fresco of the Garden of Eden held in Madrid’s Prado Museum, is compared to a shaky diagram which could equally be a timber construction or a road map. John Reynolds ranges freely over grids and coordinates, his visual sources have an
international scope. With lurid colours that evoke blood or advertising, he creates a map of veins, or city streets. ‘It’s an ongoing fascination for me . . . the ways geography and history
get smudged.’
