Aboriginal Art - Worldwide attention

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The Venice Biennele in the early 1990's caught the world by storm. Australia featured an artist, Rover Thomas, in its exhibition. The view then that was held that Aboriginal art was just tribal and of no interest to the art world. When people came to view the Australian exhibition they were literally "blown away" by Rover's works.

Works were painted in natural pigments depicting the land that Rover had grown up in and knew intimately. He had a way of painting in such a modern but minimal way that the art community of Europe and America that came to the exhibition to view these works wanted to know and see more and more.

This bought Aboriginal art to the world attention and art from the Kimberley, in particular, was really sought after.

tomorrow, more about art from the Kimberley