Australia's Bark Painting: A Journey into Artistic Expression.

🎨 Yirawala was a highly influential artist known as the 'Picasso of Arnhem Land' and influenced younger artists.

🖌️ Yirawala's Totemic Crocodile painting showcased his innovative approach to bark painting.

🌍 In Aboriginal Australia, it is the older, more senior artists who introduce innovation.

The National Museum holds the largest collection of bark paintings in the world, with over 2000 paintings.

The exhibition 'Old Masters' showcases 122 bark paintings, including some never seen before in Australia.

The exhibition explores the transmission of artistic traditions and the relationships between master artists and their students.

🎨 Bark painting is a traditional art form in Australia that can reflect an artist's personal experiences in the modern world.

💀 David Malangi's paintings depict macabre spirit beings and utilize a style called X-ray, showcasing extended claws and rib bones.

✈️ Mawalan Marika's painting 'Sydney from the Air' is part of a series inspired by his first visit to Sydney, Australia in 1961.

🎨 The use of traditional painting techniques and cross hatching to depict buildings and roads as seen from an aeroplane.

🌏 The 'Coat of Arms' painting symbolizes the significance of Aboriginal culture in Australia and the country's diversity and multiculturalism.

🖌️ Narritjin Maymuru used art to express Aboriginal culture to non-Aboriginal people.

🎨 Old Masters is an art form that is one of the oldest continuing traditions in humanity.

🌍 Old Masters is an Australian form of art that holds great significance in the cultural life of the country.

🌱 Visiting Old Masters allows people to learn about Aboriginal culture, appreciate the aesthetic of bark painting, and be inspired.