What do you think of when you think Australian aboriginal art?

A tremendous variety of colors? Lots and lots of dots?

You are right and your are wrong.

Dots and multi colors come from the desert painters of Papunya, Utopia, Lajamanu and various other desert settlements

Arnhem painters paint traditional scenes of spirit beings with x-ray paintings of native animals in ochres.

The color range of the ochre palette is amazingly diverse and the figures have a feel of movement and mystery.

This arnhem piece on bark with ground ochres is entitled “Mimi and kangaroo”

The work was painted around 1930 by an anonymous painter.

The movement and clarity of the work is incredible.

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