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Frederick McCubbin’s The Pioneer, minus the pioneer

16 August 2021 , by Ned Bullwinkel

Frederick McCubbin’s famous ‘The Pioneer’, above, needed an update, needed improving, and some bold and innovative trailblazers and radical thinkers have decided to make the necessary change to it, like so:

she’s going to pick up that axe and get to work

It is by the Jewish Austrian (mother)/Catholic Czech (father) artist Anna Zahalka, and now on display at the Geelong Gallery, and the curator says of it:

If you take Anna Zahalka’s ‘The Pioneer’, she is creating a new story, one based on her family, her parents being first-generation refugees coming from war-torn Europe, of being at the coalface of the assimilation process, and her growing up thinking “where does my family story fit within this Australian pioneering legacy?”

Her family and her parents’ story doesn’t fit anywhere in the Australian pioneering legacy, they just turned up after all the hard work to create one of the most prosperous and peaceful societies to ever exist in all of blood and misery soaked human existence had been done, and then mooched off it, complained about it, and tried to change it all, or their wretched children did.

And

We are listening to other voices in ways we should have been decades ago, in ways that are long overdue. We’re much more understanding of the contribution of women to making a home and settling land. We’re much more mindful of the environmental impacts of clearing the land.

Obviously photoshopping out a man from a painting is the way to do it.

“The Pioneer” is not the only McCubbin painting this exhibition is trying to ruin, but also ‘A Bush Burial’, left the original, right, some modern monstrous take on it:

The curator adds:

The interpretations that our contemporary artists overlay on these works open up the narrative.

After the Taliban conquers Australia a new narrative will be opened up, and it will involve people like these being put to work fruit picking and they will have plenty of time to contemplate the narrative overlays further.

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  1. Jenny says

    18 August 2021 at 9:04 am

    I am horrified to read what had been happening to Frederick McCubbins work. Updating you say. That’s BS. I say. You should not be allowed to tamper with artwork. Next they will be wanting to update the Mona Lisa.

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  2. Geo. Orwell says

    27 August 2021 at 3:59 am

    Why is this Zahalka persyn promoting white supremacy? She could have at least made the infant black, if not the mother as well. But I suppose this was beyond xher middling Photoshop skills.

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