Minnie Pwerle
Awelye Atnwengerrp min237
Kunstenaar: Minnie Pwerle
Maat: 121x91cm
CAT No: min237
Materiaal: acryl op linnen
Prijs: €7950,- (betaling 12 mnd mogelijk)
Story
In this painting Minnie Pwerle depicts the traditional Body Painting used during women’s ceremony. The people of Utopia used body paint designs for corroborees or ceremonies, celebrating/depicting all aspects of traditional lore. Each clan has its own totem or Dreaming story and the body paint designs are usually the same for each depiction. Minnie Pwerle’s paintings usually depict the body painting designs associated with the ceremonies of the bush melon, which is an important totem to Minnie.
The designs depicted in this painting were painted on the arms and breasts of the woman partaking in the ceremonies. Long ago, the paint was made up from earth colored ochre and resin, charcoal and white ashes from the campfire were also used. In the Contemporary Aboriginal Art paintings of today, acrylic paint has replaced these natural pigments and the designs have become more colorful, still retaining the same basic shapes.
Kunstenaar: Minnie Pwerle
Maat: 121x91cm
CAT No: min237
Materiaal: acryl op linnen
Prijs: €7950,- (betaling 12 mnd mogelijk)
Story
In this painting Minnie Pwerle depicts the traditional Body Painting used during women’s ceremony. The people of Utopia used body paint designs for corroborees or ceremonies, celebrating/depicting all aspects of traditional lore. Each clan has its own totem or Dreaming story and the body paint designs are usually the same for each depiction. Minnie Pwerle’s paintings usually depict the body painting designs associated with the ceremonies of the bush melon, which is an important totem to Minnie.
The designs depicted in this painting were painted on the arms and breasts of the woman partaking in the ceremonies. Long ago, the paint was made up from earth colored ochre and resin, charcoal and white ashes from the campfire were also used. In the Contemporary Aboriginal Art paintings of today, acrylic paint has replaced these natural pigments and the designs have become more colorful, still retaining the same basic shapes.
Minnie Pwerle
1920 (Utopia Station, Northern Territory) - 2006
Country: Utopia
Nationality: Australian
Language group: Anmatyerre
Biography
Minnie was born around 1910 near the cattle station of Utopia in Northern Territory. She belongs to the Anmatyerre and Alyawarr language groups. She is the mother of acclaimed artist Barbara Weir. Like many other Utopia women artists, Minnie participated in the batik project which was introduced to the community in 1977. Although painting started in the late 1980s in her community, Minnie started to paint on canvas only in 1999, while in her late eighties and after many years of ceremonial body painting. Together with her good friend Emily Kame Kngwarreye Minnie revolutionized Aboriginal Art by painting in a radically different manner than their fellow artists from the Western Desert. Minnie's style was spontaneous, free, and embraced bold and vibrant colours. Her paintings include two main design themes. The first consists of free-flowing and parallel lines in a pendulous outline, depicting the designs used in women's ceremonies, or Awelye. The second are circular shapes, used to represent bush tomato, bush melon, and wild desert orange. Her spiritual connection to the land is unmistakable in all her paintings. Minnie continued to paint until she died in March 2006.
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