Johnny Warangkula Jupurrula

Johnny Warangkula Jupurrula even Johanny W. or Johnny Warangkula called (* 1925 in Minjilpirri near the Lake Mackay , † 2001 in Papunya ), was a painter of Aborigines , a significant Malrichtung Aboriginal, the so-called dot-painting (dot painting ), which is also called Papunya Tula .

Life

He was the son of a woman descended from the Luritja , Warlpiri and Pintupi and his father descended from the Luritja and Warlpiri. Johnny was raised in Aboriginal traditions and customs in his childhood and did not attend an official school. He grew up in a group of Luritja in Hermannsburg and learned their language. As a child, Johnny Warangkula had his first contact with Europeans when they put him on a plane. His tribe, which first moved to Haasts Bluff , then moved to Papunya in 1960. There he was selected from among the Tjupurullaas Aborigines to see Elizabeth II in 1954 on the occasion of her visit to Australia. In Papunya he was elected to the Papunya Council together with Mick Namarari , Limpi Tjapangati and Kingsley Tjungarrayi . Until his death in 2001, Johnny Warrangkula lived in Papunya with his wife Gladys Napangka, with whom he had eight daughters and two sons.

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The first dreamtime pictures that Johnny Warangkula painted were Water Dreaming , Bungalung Man Dreaming and Bush Tucker Dreaming . When the art teacher Geoffrey Bardon came to Papunya, he instructed the painters living there in modern painting techniques and materials. Johnny Warangkula quickly developed his own style of dot painting. He used differently overlapping painting techniques by applying dots to depict his dream time and that of his father. Geoffrey Bardon called his pictures “ tremulous illusion ” (German: quaking illusion ) and “ intense level of intuitive concentration ” (German: most intense expression of an intuitive concentration ) of the so-called Papunyanya-Tula art in the Western Desert .

Johnny Warungkula Tjuppurulla began his career as an artist after long time road workers and construction workers in Haasts Bluff, Mt. Leibig, Yuendumu and Mt. Wedge.

He initially sold his paintings for around 150 Australian dollars (AUD) to finance his living. In 1984, James Mollison, Director of the National Gallery of Australia , recognized the value of Warangkula paintings and described them as "the best abstract art ever created in this country", possibly adding value to Warangkula. His best-known work "Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa" was auctioned by Sotheby’s auction house in July 1997 for AUD 206,000. After that he was called J. W. or Big J. W. and became one of the most famous Aboriginal painters . Another work by Johnny Warrangkula sold for $ 486,000, the highest price ever for an Aboriginal artwork by the year 2000.

Web links

• Pictures by Johnny Wararngkula on www.artnet.de
• Exhibition directory by Johnny Warangkula on www.aboriginal-art.de

Individual evidence

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