Word: tjapaltjarri
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Exhibition organizer Nakayama calls the Western Desert painting movement "a very evolutionary contemporary art," and "Prism" offers some of its key turning points-from a board of the early phase at Papunya, when European materials were first introduced to the desert community in 1971, to Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's Man's Love Story, 1978, the first dot painting to be bought by a public art gallery. But where the exhibition breaks new ground is in exploring the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous art. In a room to the right of Love Story, the Australian art divide is made spurious...
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