Warlugulong (1977) is an acrylic painting by Indigenous Australian artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. In 2007 it was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for A$2.4 million, a record auction price for a contemporary Indigenous Australian art work. The painting illustrates eight dreamings of traditional locations the artist had knowledge of, and depicts the story of an ancestral creature called Lungkata or the Blue-Tongue Lizard Man, who created bushfire. The painting portrays the aftermath of a fire caused by Lungkata to punish his two sons who had not shared a kangaroo with him that they had caught. The sons' skeletons are on the right-hand side of the image, shown against a background representing smoke and ashes. The painting exemplifies a distinctive style developed by Papunya Tula artists in the 1970s, blending representation of landscape with ceremonial iconography. Art critic Benjamin Genocchio describes it as "a work of real national significance [and] one of the most important 20th-century Australian paintings".
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlugulong
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1161:
A Song dynasty fleet defeated Jin dynasty ships in a naval engagement on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Caishi
1842:
The University of Notre Dame (main administration building pictured) was founded by Rev. Edward Sorin, of the Congregation of Holy Cross, as an all-male institution in South Bend, Indiana, US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Notre_Dame
1943:
Second World War: The British troop ship HMT Rohna was sunk in the Mediterranean by a Luftwaffe bomb, killing more than 1,100 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMT_Rohna
1983:
Six robbers broke into the Brink's-Mat warehouse at London Heathrow Airport and stole three tonnes (6,612 lb) of gold bullion, much of which has never been recovered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink%27s-Mat_robbery
2011:
US-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in a friendly fire incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_NATO_attack_in_Pakistan
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
on the wagon: 1. (idiomatic) Abstaining from drinking any alcoholic drink, usually in the sense of having given it up (as opposed to never having partaken); teetotal. 2. (by extension) Maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the_wagon
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can’t be a lie. Writers who try to prove something are unattractive to me, because there is nothing to prove and everything to imagine. So I let words and images emerge from within. If you do that, you might prove something in the process. --Eugène Ionesco https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco