Art update: Albert Namatjia
This is an update on a art story I ran last January (2012) on late Australian Indigenous artist, Albert Namatjira. You might remember this painting.
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Before the ghost gums were burnt down (below).
Very sad, considering the Northern Territory government were trying to preserve these trees and make sure they wouldn't get damaged. To late now.
Photos sourced from Google imagines
Photos sourced from Google imagines
I heard about this on the news but I didn't know both trees were burnt down. That painting was hanging somewhere in my school when I was a child, I can't remember where but I often walked past it, I remember it well.
ReplyDeleteMerle..........
wow truly sad, Joluise, my dad is a painter and copied this in water colour in his early days of painting..
ReplyDeleteSo senseless and foolish, even sadder for them if that is what their heart is like,
God bless you, Shaz in oz.x