Abie Jumbyinmba Tjangala
Rainbow Men II - 2002
53 x 78 cm
Etching
Code #:7208
$1,000
LOCATION: Stock
Provenance
Medium: Etching (multi-plate colour and embossing)
Image Size: 240 mm x 645 mm
Paper Size: 535 mm x 785 mm
Published: Darwin, NT, January 2005
Edition Size: 50
Printer: Basil Hall
Studio: Basil Hall Editions Darwin, NT
Story
In his mature years, Abie Jangala was the most senior rainmaker amongst the Warlpiri people of the northern Tanami Desert. His Dreamings are associated with the Rainbow Men, who are venerated amongst Warlpiri people. Abie’s early works were created on a deep thalo green or black ground with the stark symbols specifically representing rainbows, lightning, clouds, waterholes and frogs, composed in much the same way as they are etched in relief on the body of rain-makers when covered in kapok or feather down for ceremony.
Abie typically painted these powerful symbols, which are also recreated in ceremonial ground constructions, in solid black or red, outlined in single alternate bands of bright yellow, green and red dots thereby emboldening the icons to evoke the shimmering and alluring effect of the Rainbow Men and their dramatic manifestation as natural climatic phenomena.
This allure is imitated by the glint from pieces of broken mirror or shiny belt buckles worn and carried by men in ceremony; and the glistening skin of women covered in animal fat and red ochre. Typically these paintings are in-filled with compact white dots representing rain or fields of hailstones. At the height of his artistic powers Abie could apply these uniform white dots in such a way as to evoke the same meditative quality as that of the raked grounds of Zen meditation gardens.
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