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Review of the book The art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri by Vivien Johnson.
A pioneer dot painter and Aboriginal artist... ancient iconographies can be enjoyed for their abstract qualities - their form, high color, etc.
The encyclopedic range, depth, conceptual complexity, technical skill and inventiveness represented here will astonish even the keenest admirers of his work. So might the obscure destiny - until now - of such great art in the display and consumption systems of the western art world.
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The art of the Australian Aborigines is widely recognised as being the oldest art form in the world, preceding that of the Americas and Europe by many centuries. For thousands of years, however, the only art forms practised by the Aborigines were rock painting and carving, bark painting, sand painting and body painting using natural ochres, wild desert cotton, charcoal and birds' down, often carried out as part of ceremonial activities. It was not until 1971 that the Aborigines of the Papunya Tula settlement in the deserts of the Northern Territory were introduced to methods of painting on canvas and board using modern materials. This book commemorates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Pap...
Catalogue of an exhibition of works by Western Desert artists, held as part of the 1984 Adelaide Festival at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Institute Building, North Terrace, Adelaide, on display 1-18 March 1984. Catalogue essay by Vincent Megaw.
Astronomical auction prices in the late 1990s first drew many peoples attention to the phenomenon of the early Papunya boards, the thousand small painted panels created at the remote Northern Territory Aboriginal settlement of Papunya in 1971-72.