I just learned with great emotion the disappearance the artist Jack Weaver, last Thursday.
It is always difficult to talk about the death of Aboriginal artists as their name should remain as "suspended" during the mourning period. I would too if this prank is just to emphasize both the nobility and discretion of this great lady and the important role she played in her artistic movement Bidyadanga.
It was like a shooting star with a special destiny. In the last seven years of her life transformed our perception of the universe of these nomads through structured paintings suggest landscapes bordering on abstraction, hemmed by bright colors and bold.
Since 2003, she works with her first engagement with the younger generation the artistic movement of Bidyadanga thanks to unwavering support Emily Rohr of Short St Gallery.
law aged woman, most respected in her community, she spent part of his life by the great tradition of the nomads. With his group and it is an example of the painters of the diaspora, dispersed from their ancestral lands by successive droughts.
Their intimate connection with the rhythm and nomadic truth of the first ages of humanity, are witnesses of these kinds of dinosaurs irreplaceable This huge adventure migration of men. They carry a message and sadly disappear one after the other.
Their paintings will remain as key element of that culture, in the twilight of the intellectuals of the desert civilization. We can hope that tomorrow these pictures inspire younger artists, they invite them to perpetuate the transmission of graphical knowledge nomad almost universal.
To learn more about Jack Weaver:
- National Art Gallery of Victoria
- Short St Gallery
- William Mora art gallery
- A canvas already presented on the blog
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few winks in the footsteps of a collection. Early balbuciements to greater discoveries. Nomadic peoples, the Aborigines contemporary paintings ... 
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