I love the natural earthy colours and the simple patterns that are used. I love the fact that these are traditional works, and each one is symbolic and tells a story.
Despite the fact the art is based on styles done for thousands of years the work looks contemporary, and fits perfectly in to a modern room. However, traditionally it was not done in acrylic paints on wooden board, as it is now, though!!
Here are a few of my favourite paintings, that I saw during my visit to Australia. Most are from galleries in Alice Springs.
I think I visited just about every gallery in Alice Springs....and there are rather a lot of them!!
A wonderful selection of beautiful ( but expensive! ) paintings.
I think these 3 paintings are really trying to fit a modern market. I doubt that originally the artists would do 3 paintings that coordinated like this! Despite that, they are very dramatic, and very large works, which would need a huge wallspace to do them justice.
Blue is not a colour that aboriginals used before they started working in acrylics. Some purists feel only the natural earth colours (based on rocks, seeds, sand, berries and ashes etc ) have a place in the work. I disagree , as all art changes with time, and they have a right to expand their style. This work mixes blue with the natural terracotta and neutrals. It is a very strong painting which you are really drawn to. Each section is made from tiny dots painted with a stick.
This photo was taken in Darwin. The lady was working on a very long painting which had a lovely mixture of pattern and reptiles. There is so much detail in it, and the colours are very bright due to using a lot of yellow.
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