Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition

www,dacou.com.au Emily Kame Kngwarreye is Australias most important and famous female artist. Hailed as a modernist genius, she has been compared to Rothko and de Kooning. An Anmatyerre elder from Utopia in the remote central desert region of the Northern Territory, Emily first took up painting on canvas in her late 70's. She quickly became one of the leaders in the contemporary Aboriginal art movement, transforming her style several times during her short career of eight years. Today she is known as one of the greatest abstract painters of the 20th century.

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[margaretjanemoon]

such a legacy of beauty

[lightawake]

hi, someone introduced me to her works just yesterday; i am a fan of kandinsky and miro...and now, in my books she sits beside them - her work is beautiful - i love it! hope one day to travel across the ditch and see some of her works in person!

[YourCreativeMuse]

I saw the exhibition Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye presented by the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. I was profoundly moved by the extraordinary power in her painting and particularly responded to how she painted the lines in the Yam painting. One of the strongest impressions I had and now a personal influence was seeing Emily still working on the earth in traditional style.