Vintage Aboriginal art | Eddie Taita Blitner (63/53cm.)

Eddie Taita (Edward) Blitner (1961)
Olieverf schilderij Indigenous art "Dugong dreaming"
Region: Roper River, Australia
Schilderij in olieverf in prachtige aardetinten
Werk uit 1980/1990's.
63 x 53 cm. incl. lijst
In perfecte staat
Professioneel ingelijst in een bijpassende "zilver met outbackzand-rood geaderde" lijst.

Blitners werken hangen in talloze gallerien door heel Australie en Blitner is een bekende Aboriginal artist.

De werken van Blitner gaan voor prijzen vanaf 200+ pond voor zijn kleine werkjes tot 3500 pond voor XL werken, mede afhankelijk van gebruikte techniek en onderwerp.

Bieden naar waarde

Bij interesse: stuur gerust een pb met uw bod. Geen vragen over minimum prijs aub. De kenner weet dat dit geen tientjes-kunst (en lijst) is. (De lijst alleen was al €250+).

Dit schilderij kan worden opgehaald of verzonden. Verzending gaat in een xl Postnl pakket (ivm grootte van de verpakking) met track en trace.
Ik verpak zeer zorgvuldig.

Op verzoek kan er ook verzekerd worden verzonden. Evenals kopersbescherming via Marktplaats.
Geef uw keuzes aan svp.

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Biography
Edward Blitner is a contemporary Arnhem Land artist who uses the techniques and stories taught to him by his grandfather on country around Ngukurr, on the Roper River in southern Arnhem Land. Edward Blitner was born in 1961 at Ngukurr and in his adult years has lived widely around the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Blitner is a major painter and has painted since he was very young. He has a great facility with a range of painting mediums. Edward Blitner uses the styles, as well as the stories and subject matter, of his traditional Arnhem Land home country, and maintains the natural earth colours for the distinctive cross-hatching, or rrarrk patterns, on his paintings.

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Achtergrond info over de dugong & dreamings:
The dugong is a popular traditional food source for the people of Northern Australia, although they are no longer hunted as often due to the fact they are a threatened species. As well, the use of nets in certain areas by general fishermen is banned, and shark nets have been removed in popular coastal swimming areas to decrease the alarming mortality rates these have on the dugong population.

A common name for the dugong is ‘sea cow,’ probably because they are herbivores that feast on sea grasses. According to native law, women in some tribes are not permitted to see the female dugong until the men have removed her human-like breasts.

Dugongs are very gentle creatures and will sometimes gather into large herds, although this is apparently not as common today due to their smaller numbers. They have a similar lifespan to that of humans.

Dreamings about the Dugong have her as a young woman who has had enough of the ways of men who inevitably betray her, and so goes into the sea as a permanent home[1]. Embittered feminists (or men, if you are male) would fit this archetype well!

She was so ugly, (just look at her now!) no wonder she was betrayed! If this is how you would make sense of this Dugong Dreaming, remember to always seek the inner beauty beyond external appearances in your life!

People from the Northern Territory believe Dugong is sister to the moon. Leeches attack her so she goes into the sea[2].

In another Dreaming[3], she tries to break open a coconut shell, but in the process, splinters get into her eyes. She goes to the ocean to wash them out, however as it is low tide and she is blinded, she does not make it in time, becoming trapped by the incoming tide. As a result, she changes into a dugong, which is why the females have human-like breasts. People can still hear her lonely cries today. If this Dreaming strikes a chord, some event in your life has left you feeling stranded and alone, or besieged by nuisance after nuisance…..

‘Singing’ Dugongs could likely be the reality behind the myth of mermaids. Fantasy and the imagination may need a good workout with the appearance of these creatures. To imagine them as sensual lithe mermaids is a great exercise if you come face to face with a dugong! Seeing the reality in a personal myth could also be just as confronting.
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