Reading: “One sun one moon : Aboriginal art in Australia”
“All over the world nobody different family, all the same family. One sun, one moon...”
Paddy Fordham Wainburranga
Through the reading “One Sun One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia”, I know more Indigenous art, one of the oldest traditional art in Australian culture. Perkin ( 2007,p. 11) argued that “ the advent of contemporary Indigenous visual art from Australia as a unique presence in world art is a phenomena that runs against the grain of Western modernism”.
The book “One Sun One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia “provides readers information about the view of many different artists, curators as well as scholars about the Aboriginal art movement from pre-European contact to the present. In addition, One Sun One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia is also a name of an amazing exhibition that was launched by Edmund Capon at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Monday 2 July 2007. This exhibition brought together many of finest contemporary Aboriginal artists. With the large collection of many different art-works , which were chosen from three major Australian collections: the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, the Holmes à Court Collection, Heytesbury, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, artists demonstrates perfectly the features of Aboriginal art including the variety and the multi-lingual. “One Sun, One Moon invites us on an incredible imaginative journey into the heart and history of Australia” ( Artdaily 2012).In my opinion, after this reading, I realize that Aboriginal art also has the immortal nature. The reason why I have this idea is because this art has been affected by many negative elements for a very long time which want to eraser its existence, but it still exists until now. In fact, Aboriginal art becomes more and more popular nowadays not only in Australia but also in other countries. With many detail explanation about the meaning of things which were showed in the exhibition including the illustrated images of heritages or aboriginal art works, the book provides many both useful and interesting information about this oldest traditional art. I think this book is really an amazing reference for anyone who wants to understand more or start to study about the Aboriginal art.
Sources:
Artdaily 2012, One Sun, One Moon - Aboriginal Art in Australia, viewed 14 July 2012.< http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=20763&int_modo=2#.UH8H0m_Mh_8>
Perkins, H 2007, One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
