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Detail of a wall hanging I bought today.

Date: 27 Jan 2005 06:50 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tatterdemalion.livejournal.com
ohhh nice, very nice

Date: 27 Jan 2005 07:51 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] makovette.livejournal.com
Ohhh Very nice!

Any Pee-wees or bats?

CYa!
Mako

Date: 27 Jan 2005 08:16 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
No. to both. 8(

Date: 27 Jan 2005 10:04 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oceansedge.livejournal.com
Ooooooooooo that IS lovely!!

Date: 27 Jan 2005 11:09 (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hobbitblue.livejournal.com
Groovy wombats! :)

Date: 27 Jan 2005 11:15 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zhenzhi.livejournal.com
very nice. :-)

Date: 27 Jan 2005 13:46 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ursulav.livejournal.com
Well, you know *I* love it!

Date: 27 Jan 2005 20:36 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
I knew you would. For some reason wombats are not often drawn in a traditional style, so it's rare to find any depiction of them. Which is why I bought it, of course. Everyone else goes for the kangaroo motif.

Bats are even rarer.

Date: 27 Jan 2005 19:29 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] walkertxkitty.livejournal.com
So beautiful...is that aboriginal style art?

When we got married a friends living in Queensland sent us a painting of a kangaroo and her joey in similar style. I love the textures and patterns so it hangs in a place of honor on the front wall of our living room.

Date: 27 Jan 2005 20:47 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
That style, the line-work and hash fills, is traditional* but the greens are not. Usually things are painted in earth-tones because traditionally that was the only pigment source. Black came from charcoal but all the other colours had to come from clay, ocher and powdered stone. The use of the "wrong" colours lets the modern traditional artist paint sacred symbols with faults so they're no longer the sacred symbol.



*traditional around here. In Arhnem Land they paint the animal's internal organs in an x-ray style that is found nowhere else.

Date: 28 Jan 2005 16:50 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] walkertxkitty.livejournal.com
I'm not sure where he got it. It seems to be the work of a modern australian artist. The animal itself (it shows a kangaroo and a snake) is done in the traditional earth tones you described and outlined in black with white aboriginal patterns going across the body but the background for the painting is a colbalt blue-green. It's smaller than your piece (about 8x10) but it's an original and signed.

I'll see if I can get a shot of it with the digicam and post it when SImtra gets home. He takes the digicam with him to work.

I'd be interested in your opinion of the piece. My friend didn't tell us much about it, just sent it as a wedding gift.

Date: 27 Jan 2005 19:50 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] odanu.livejournal.com
utterly awesome. You guys need to send stuff like that to the good ol' USA to make our trade deficit even worse :)

Date: 27 Jan 2005 22:30 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beki.livejournal.com
That rather reminds me of navajoe rugs. Except some of the colors are different.. well and we dont have wombats etc in the desert here either.

Date: 27 Jan 2005 23:04 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com
Wombat!!:)

Nifty design! I like those l'il beady eyes:)........

Good News!!

Date: 28 Jan 2005 14:25 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] penpouring.livejournal.com
Did you read this article?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4213495.stm

Check out the related links too. Do you think I should by some stocks in the spit venture? What do you think about that?

I love the wall hanging!! It reminds me of an aboriginal The Cheat!

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