Papunya Tula paintings

E70429

Indigenous Australian art movement Western Desert art contemporary art

Papunya Tula paintings are a seminal body of contemporary Indigenous Australian art, originating from Western Desert communities and renowned for their intricate dot motifs and powerful expressions of Aboriginal cultural narratives.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Papunya Tula art movement	6
Papunya painting movement	2
Honey Ant Dreaming mural	1
Papunya Tula Artists	1
Papunya Tula painting tradition	1
Papunya Tula paintings canonical	1
Papunya Tula school of painting	1
Papunya Tula style	1
Tingari cycle paintings	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indigenous Australian art movement ⓘ Western Desert art ⓘ contemporary art ⓘ
artForm	acrylic painting on canvas ⓘ
associatedWith	Papunya Tula paintings self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Papunya Tula Artists Western Desert cultural bloc ⓘ surface form: Western Desert communities
countryOfOrigin	Australia ⓘ
culturalContext	Aboriginal law and ceremony ⓘ Western Desert cultural bloc ⓘ surface form: Western Desert cultural traditions
depicts	Dreaming stories ⓘ Tjukurpa ⓘ surface form: Tjukurrpa ancestral beings ⓘ ceremonial sites ⓘ songlines ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Aboriginal Australians ⓘ
exhibitedAt	Art Gallery of New South Wales ⓘ National Gallery of Australia ⓘ major international museums ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	abstraction of landscape ⓘ aerial perspective ⓘ complex iconography ⓘ restricted colour palettes ⓘ
hasTheme	connection to Country ⓘ cultural continuity ⓘ land rights ⓘ
inception	early 1970s ⓘ
influenced	contemporary Indigenous Australian art ⓘ global contemporary art ⓘ
movementFoundedBy	Geoffrey Bardon ⓘ
notableArtist	Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri ⓘ George Tjungurrayi ⓘ Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula ⓘ Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri ⓘ Kaapa Tjampitjinpa ⓘ Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri ⓘ Ningura Napurrula ⓘ Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi ⓘ Ronnie Tjampitjinpa ⓘ Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula ⓘ Uta Uta Tjangala ⓘ Yayayi Napangati ⓘ
originatedIn	Northern Territory ⓘ Papunya ⓘ
precededBy	body painting ⓘ ground painting ⓘ shield painting ⓘ
producedBy	Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd ⓘ
usesMotif	dot painting ⓘ geometric patterning ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

National Gallery of Australia → hasNotableWork → Papunya Tula paintings ⓘ

Papunya Tula paintings → associatedWith → Papunya Tula paintings self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Papunya Tula Artists

Western Desert art → notableWork → Papunya Tula paintings ⓘ

this entity surface form: Honey Ant Dreaming mural

Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri → artisticTradition → Papunya Tula paintings ⓘ

this entity surface form: Papunya Tula style

Yayayi Napangati → movement → Papunya Tula paintings ⓘ

this entity surface form: Papunya Tula school of painting

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri → associatedWith → Papunya Tula paintings ⓘ