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When approaching John McAllister’s landscape paintings, we should first take a look at photography. Long before Joseph Niepce fixed a photographic image onto a tin plate in the 1820s, there already existed devices to show an accentuated sliver of the visible world. Even though those glimpses proved fleeting, mere projections created by focused light beams reflected from the things of the world, the camera obscura emerged as the device of choice for painters by bringing the world directly onto the canvas.

Within John McAllister's canvases we find bushes, trees, leaves and grasses in motifs …