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A style with a stated origin.
Also known as: Western Desert dot painting, Papunya dot style
The Western Desert painting convention using fields of dots, developed in the twentieth century.
Renders designs in fields of dots, developed at Papunya from the early 1970s onward.
Contexts: History, Public information
The dot field is widely understood to have been adopted partly to obscure elements of designs that were not to be seen by outsiders, so the style's most characteristic feature is a means of withholding rather than of showing.
Contexts: History, Public information
The underlying designs belong to specific people with the right to paint them, and that right is governed by the communities concerned rather than by the art market.
Contexts: History, Public information
Fields of small dots applied in rows and clusters, surrounding concentric circles, arcs and connecting lines laid out as if seen from above.