Minnie Pwerle (between 1910 and 1922 – 2006) was an Australian
Aboriginal artist. She came from Utopia, Northern Territory, a cattle
station in an area of Central Australia 300 kilometres (190 mi)
northeast of Alice Springs known as the Sandover. Minnie began painting
in 2000, and her pictures soon became popular and sought-after works of
contemporary Indigenous Australian art. In the years after she took up
painting on canvas, until she died in 2006, Minnie's works were
exhibited around Australia and collected by major galleries, including
the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria
and the Queensland Art Gallery. With popularity came pressure from
those keen to acquire her work. She was allegedly "kidnapped" by people
who wanted her to paint for them, and there have been media reports of
her work being forged. Minnie's work is often compared with that of her
sister-in-law Emily Kame Kngwarreye, who also came from the Sandover
and took up acrylic painting late in life. Minnie's daughter, Barbara
Weir, is a respected artist in her own right.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
43 BC:
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark
Antony formed the Second Triumvirate alliance.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Triumvirate>
1476:
Vlad the Impaler defeated Basarab Laiotă with the help of Stephen the
Great and Stephen V Báthory and became the ruler of Wallachia for the
third time.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_the_Impaler>
1778:
An expedition led by James Cook reached Maui, the second largest of the
Hawaiian Islands.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui>
1805:
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest and highest aqueduct in Great
Britain, carrying the Llangollen Canal over the River Dee in northeast
Wales, opened.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontcysyllte_Aqueduct>
1922:
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the
tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV62>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
limbate (adj):
(biology, paleontology) Having a distinct edge; bordered
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/limbate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society
itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what raises barriers between
men, this is what creates misunderstanding.
If I may be allowed to express myself paradoxically, I should say
that the truest society, the authentic human community, is extra-social
— a wider, deeper society, that which is revealed by our common
anxieties, our desires, our secret nostalgias. The whole history of the
world has been governed by nostalgias and anxieties, which political
action does no more than reflect and interpret, very imperfectly. No
society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can
deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst
for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social
condition, not vice versa.
--Eugène Ionesco
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