A study of the Figurative in Desert painting: Figurative painting from the desert
Past exhibition
Kumanara Barney
Travelling
acrylic on linen
75 x 62 cm
788835
Kumanara has painted all the aeroplanes, trucks, helicopters and cars he has seen. Scince the mid 1070's Pitjantjara people have established decentralised communities close to available artesian water supplies, of...
Kumanara has painted all the aeroplanes, trucks, helicopters and cars he has seen. Scince the mid 1070's Pitjantjara people have established decentralised communities close to available artesian water supplies, of which Indulkana the home to Iwantja Arts is one of them. Anagu people have special ties to totemic sites in the area and paint their connection to it. Artists use symbolism from their own individual dreaming path, single and concentric cirlcles, animal tracks and straight curved lines.
The dots in different colour blocks represent vegetation as is changes from place to place and season to season. Each painting represents not only the site but the event that took place there in the dreaming story.
The dots in different colour blocks represent vegetation as is changes from place to place and season to season. Each painting represents not only the site but the event that took place there in the dreaming story.