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bark painting

In Australian Aboriginal art, technique of painting on the inner side of a strip of tree bark. Using red, yellow, white, brown, and black pigments, the works were often painted with the fingers as the artist lay inside a low bark-roofed shelter. See Aboriginal art.



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Koether studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Chicago and New York University and as an apprentice to various conservators; he's tackled restoring everything from Sarasotans Roy and Susan Palmer's old masters painting collection to historical maps for the Tampa History Center to aboriginal bark paintings in Sydney, Australia.
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