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bark painting

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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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Inspired by traditional Aboriginal bark painting (practiced in the region of northern Australia known as Arnhem Land), Lin Onus concocts his own potent synthesis of realistic landscape painting and traditional pictographic images.
"The Urban Aboriginal." (Jan Weiss Gallery, New York, New York) by Borum, Jenifer P. / Artforum International
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