“It seems like people have a yearning for the unique, for the original,” says Winnipeg artist Christian Worthington. “I’m more optimistic, and I think more people appreciate art now than ever before, because of access to education, books, galleries, and the internet.”
Still, his work—which deals with European philosophies and religion, borrowing extensively from the entire history of painting—would seem a difficult sell in contemporary North America.
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