Collection connections
Picasso
64.2003 |
Not on display
John Mawurndjul, et al.
Buluwana 2002
On first seeing Picasso’s Nude in a rocking chair at the Art Gallery of NSW, John Mawurndjul recognised an artistic affinity. Indeed, the distortion and reductive treatment of the figures is something both artists shared. Throughout his career, Mawurdjul has consistently abstracted the figures in his work by merging their bodies with the landscape. In this work, for example, the form of Buluwana is reduced to a collection of dismembered limbs, consumed in a field of rarrk (cross-hatched lines).