Artist: Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Dreaming: Bush Fire
Painted: Alice Springs 2012
Dreaming: Bush Fire
Painted: Alice Springs 2012
Seriously don’t bother watching the whole 26 min
you’ve probably seen similar videos before.
Although I have no idea of the
meaning of this painting other than it is a bush fire it was almost memorizing
to listen to the music as he painted line after line parallel line. There is a
hilarious part at about 15 min in where Ronnie looks at the camera with what I
assume is disproval/ Disdain and makes a circle with his thumb and forefinger
and stares through his imaginary camera at the camera man, almost as if to say
how do you like it? Piss off and let me paint in piece. I don’t know why I chose to the most
‘abstract’ of the videos but I did so I guess I’ll try to make my own meaning
out of it. The parallel lines look a lot like a burnt rows of spinifex or the
black lines could be scorched tree trunks. It’s interesting that when I goggled
the painting the painting that comes up looks very different painting with many
more colours and cropped differently selling for $20,000 not bad considering by
looking at the video it was all painted in one day. Ronnie’s art is a good representation
of the characteristic Pintupi style: repetition of forms, which are geometric,
simple and bold, and pigments which are often restricted to four basic colours
of black, red, yellow and white.
Ronnie also is known to experiment with other colours as well.
Ronnie also is known to experiment with other colours as well.
From the desertartcentre.com.au
“ABOUT THIS PAINTING
This Fire Dreaming artwork refers to Ronnie’s Pintupi Dreamtime ancestors.
It is a traditional custom for the Pintupi Aboriginal men to light bush fires, during ceremonial men's business.
The TINGARI Dreaming Stories are many, and also tell of the Ancestral beings transformation into creatures such as Snakes, and also representing the natural elements of Fire and water (rain).
This Fire Dreaming artwork refers to Ronnie’s Pintupi Dreamtime ancestors.
It is a traditional custom for the Pintupi Aboriginal men to light bush fires, during ceremonial men's business.
The TINGARI Dreaming Stories are many, and also tell of the Ancestral beings transformation into creatures such as Snakes, and also representing the natural elements of Fire and water (rain).
This artwork waspainted at an out-station of Kintore
Community. It is supplied with FULL HD video and multiple progress
images.”
The finished painting is truly stunning even if I have
no idea what it means.
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