Word: kookaburra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-brow artists, but by the paint-and-feather-clad, boomerang-throwing natives of the Australian bush. Showing animals, hunting scenes and spirits, these queer, childlike pictures were as unrealistic and imaginative as the screwball drawings of famed German Expressionist Paul Klee (TIME, Oct. 21). Some showed kangaroos and kookaburra birds drawn with their internal organs visible X-ray-wise through the skin. One, depicting a spirit, looked (see cut) like a child's conception of the late Jean Harlow carrying an umbrella and a fan. To paint them, Australia's aboriginal artists had used brushes made from...