Despite some hesitations, the aboriginal people accepted to reveal theses secret and sacred symbols on walls and then later on canvasses.
This is how the paintings of the Papunya-Tula School (Pintupis, Warlpiris, Pitjantjarras) was born. This paintings was very succesful since the first exhibitions and brought a real recognition to the aboriginal art.

The aboriginal painting
The aboriginal painter paints the earth and its myths of ceration, the celebrations and the food and water which are from surnatural essence.
The painting is a religious and spiritual act like the singing and the rituals, its goal is to revivify and recreate over and over the world.
The canvasses are painted flat on the ground, are mostly to be read from an aerial perspective and have no bottom no top.
The aboriginal painting was very influential for the restitution of the ancestral territories in the australian law courts.

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