Van Gogh after Hiroshige |
Hiroshige carved block print 1857 |
Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890 |
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Janganpa Jukurrpa 2017 |
In 1971, Aboriginal artists in Central Australia innovated and merged modern Western painting technologies supplied by mentor Geoffrey Bardon with their traditional cultural law (or Dreaming) art works and story-telling. Often modern Aboriginal paintings are ground maps or star maps, which, at the same time, are written as drama scenarios or scripts. These dramatic map-scenarios usually illustrate a spoken performance of a tribal epic story that is personal to the artist and his or her totem species. This work is 'Janganpa Jukurrpa', a Possum-man epic drama by Warlpiri-language Yuendumu-community artist Steven Jupurrurla Nelson. |
Steven Jukurrpa Nelson |
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Paintings |
Artist Aaqus. Around 1987 'New York School'-trained Aaqus introduced East Asian caligraphy and 'Indonesian batik'-masking into his Australian landscape style. |
Artist |
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Hiroshige 1857 and (c) Steven Jukurrpa Nelson 2017. All other works are Aaqus painted after the artists. (c) Aaqus all rights reserved 2022, 2020.