Over the last thirty years Indigenous and non-Indigenous\u00a0\u00a0art in Australia has been greatly influenced by the ground breaking Aboriginal Australian art movement which started with the dot paintings in the Central Desert community of\u00a0\u00a0Papunya in the early 1970’s.<\/p>\n
Art critic and journalist Nicholas Rothwell called the Papunya Tula painting movement\u00a0\u2018Australia\u2019s only artistic revolution\u201d. Cultural critic Paul Carter claimed the movement was\u00a0\u201cperhaps the greatest single cultural achievement of Australia\u2019\u00a0s post white history\u201d.<\/p>\n
No Australian art movement has produced so much work so consistently for so long. Not only has the Aboriginal art movement established its own specialised local and global market but it has also generated the pursuit of specialist academic study and research.<\/p>\n
This is pretty amazing for a community that comprises only 1.7% of Australia’s population.<\/p>\n
With great foresight, influential Australian modern artist in the 1940’s, Margaret Preston, was one of the first people\u00a0\u00a0to understand and support the importance of Aboriginal art. Preston thought that a\u00a0\u00a0truly national Australian art could only be created through inspiration from Aboriginal art and its relation to land; all it needed was the\u00a0\u2018all seeing eye of the Western Artist to adapt it to the 20th century\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0What she did not expect was that this\u00a0\u2018indigenous art of Australia\u2019\u00a0would be produced by Aboriginal people.<\/p>\n
Last year Ian McLean edited a book called “How Aborigines invented the idea of Abstract Art ” (Power publications 2011). In essence the emergence of Aboriginal art coincided\u00a0with the changing aesthetic of the 20th century when primitive art became popular among artists and collectors and figurative art gave way to formalism.<\/p>\n
The Point de Papunya show includes a number of indigenous and non-indigenous artists including Lydia Balbal, Dacchi Dang, Janelle Evans, Jenny Fraser, Tania Mason, Alick Tipoti and Regina Wilson who use a variety of techniques and media far removed from the original iconic dot painting of the Papunya movement.\u00a0\u00a0This show represents the new wave of artists\u00a0\u00a0that are\u00a0\u00a0redefining Australian identity and Aboriginality. It raises the question…is an artwork made by an Aboriginal Australian today necessarily Aboriginal art?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0Catherine Hickson,\u00a0Assistant Curator<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Learn more about thivs exhibition<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A chronique trying to answer an important question raised by IDAIA & Diff’Art Pacific exhibition “Beyond the Papunya Dot” (Paris, 11-28 Oct 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[51,55,53,37,58,54,828,36],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chroniques-curatoriales","tag-51","tag-chronicle","tag-chronique","tag-contemporary","tag-curatorial","tag-curatoriale","tag-news","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}