Wenten Rubuntja

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Wenten Rubuntja (* 1923 in Burt-Creek near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory ; † July 3, 2005 in the hospital in Alice Springs) was an Aborigine from the Arrernte tribe and a painter of the so-called Hermannsburg School , who started with landscape watercolors in the 1930s Attracted attention for years. The best known representative of this art direction was next to Rubuntja Albert Namatjira , with whose father Old Albert Namatjira he was related. Rubuntja was not just a painter, he was an activist for Aboriginal rights.

Life

He painted as a child. During World War II Rubuntja made a living as a kangaroo hunter for the Australian Army. After that he had several jobs in cattle breeding stations, for example drover and cook.

She had been married to Cynthia Perrurle since the mid-1950s. Rubuntja fought for the land rights of the Aborigines and for the protection of their ceremonial places in the Northern Territory. In 1976, he led a march of more than a thousand Aborigines through Alice Springs to demonstrate for the Land Rights Act by the Australian government of Malcolm Fraser and made a tour of Australia to put further pressure on the government. He was the chairman of the Central Land Council from 1976 to 1980 and 1985–1988.

He promoted knowledge of Aboriginal culture by teaching the young generation, including non-Aborigines, the way of life and rights, political understanding, economics and dealing with the nature of the Aborigines. He was of the opinion that the Aborigine and the non-Aborigine must understand each other: “ We can't fall in the power to the other law. They can't change our law, our side, and we can't change their side, or we will break our law again, and they'll break their law [...] The Dreaming is really all over Australia. We must teach the white fellas. “(German: We do not fall under the power of the laws of others. They cannot change our law and we cannot change theirs, or we break ours again and they break their law [...] Dreamtime is everywhere in Australia. We must teach this to the whites.)

He also founded numerous organizations for the Aborigines in Alice Springs in the last 30 years of his life.

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Rubuntja, who first painted with watercolors and later with acrylic paints, had a liberal perspective as a painter: “ Doesn't matter what sort of painting we do in this country, it still belongs to the people, all the people. This is worship, work, culture. It's all dreaming. There are two ways of painting. Both ways are important, because that's culture. "(German:" It doesn't matter what kind of painting we do here in this country, it still belongs to the people, to all people. It's worship, work, culture. It's all dream time. There are two types of painting Both are important because they are culture. ”) Under the influence of the Hermannsburg School, he painted naturalistically and later changed his painting style to dot painting .

His works, which have received international acclaim, are in the Australian Parliament House and other collections. His autobiography The Town Grew Up Dancing: The Life and Art of W ..... Rubuntja came out in 2002.

Web links

literature

  • Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th ed. Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press. Sydney 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.aboriginal-desert-art.com.au/artists/wenton_rubuntja.html
  2. ↑ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050813/ai_n14885502/
  3. ↑ Vivian Johnson: Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert - A Biographical Dictionary. P. 177. Craftsman House. Sydney 1994
  4. ^ The Weekend Australian Magazine. April 2002
personal data
SURNAME Rubuntja, Wenten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clifford Possum, Tjapaltjarri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian artist and political activist, Aboriginal
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Alice Springs , Australia
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 2005
Place of death Alice Springs , Australia