Papunya Tula
パプニャ・トゥラ / 1971– / Style / Aboriginal Australian Art
The movement in which Western Desert elders moved ceremonial sand designs onto acrylic and canvas: fields of dots, concentric circles and journey lines painting Country as map-like knowledge — opening Indigenous art's place in contemporary art.
Fields of dots / Concentric circles and journey lines / Map-like aerial composition / The color range of the land
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Never borrow the patterns as decoration. The imagery is a community's knowledge; the right to paint it is itself inherited.
- Further study
- Geoffrey Bardon / Dreaming imagery and rights to depict / respect for Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property