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Warlugulong (1977) is an acrylic painting by Indigenous Australian artist Cliffo
rd Possum Tjapaltjarri. In 2007 it was purchased by the National Gallery of Aust
ralia for A$2.4 million, a record auction price for a contemporary Indigenous Au
stralian art work. The painting illustrates eight dreamings of traditional locat
ions the artist had knowledge of, and depicts the story of an ancestral creature
called Lungkata or the Blue-Tongue Lizard Man, who created bushfire. The painti
ng portrays the aftermath of a fire caused by Lungkata to punish his two sons wh
o had not shared a kangaroo with him that they had caught. The sons' skeletons a
re on the right-hand side of the image, shown against a background representing
smoke and ashes. The painting exemplifies a distinctive style developed by Papun
ya Tula artists in the 1970s, blending representation of landscape with ceremoni
al iconography. Art critic Benjamin Genocchio describes it as "a work of real na
tional significance [and] one of the most important 20th-century Australian pain
tings". (Full article...)
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