Wednesday 9 January 2019

Painters of Arnhem Land

Australian Aborigines are talented painters. On Arnhem Land, where it rains a lot, traditional painting was on eucalyptus bark. White anthropologists collected those paintings for ethnography museums. However, when Picasso saw them, he said that he would like to paint like this himself. If Picasso said something like that, then it must be real art and should be exhibited in art galleries, not ethnography museums. This is what happens nowadays, all my pictures are from art exhibitions in Sydney, Brisbane and Alice Springs. 
I wrote more about Aboriginal Australian art on my other blog, if anyone is interested:
https://askaglobetrotter.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-old-masters-of-arnhem-land.html










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