In Aboriginal art, all the symbols and imagery have a meaning. In this case, the bark painting shows the symbolism of the animal, a tortoise, which is strongly related to the tribe that painted it.
According to Aboriginal art expert Tim Klingender, "Works by the most celebrated artists of the '80s and '90s, whose paintings sold not too long ago for a few thousand or even hundreds of dollars ...
Influenced by his upbringing, Jason Wing uses art to delve into social ... he decided to spray-paint an Aboriginal flag on a small temporary brick wall. “It wasn’t an artwork in the first ...
Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala was organized by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia in partnership with the ...