![]() ![]() ![]() The Aboriginal artists are also telling stories about their country, their ceremonies, their past and their Dreaming. But these works are more than pleasing patterns and colours. ![]() The shimmering dots and lines and earthy hues of western desert paintings appeal to a wide public. They were called the “Painting Men’’ and news of their “modern’’ art - which actually drew on ancient practices of painting ceremonially on the body, on rock-surfaces, bark, tree and drawing in soft earth - spread like wildfire across the country. With these murals, the local Papunya elders discovered a way to re-assert their connection with the lands they had lost - they had again found a voice in the world. The first dot painting murals, telling the story of the honey-ant, a key totemic animal of the region, were painted in 1971 by a small group of senior men at Papunya, a central Australian government settlement established as a marshalling point for Aboriginal people displaced from their traditional lands, including the Pintupi, Anmatyerre, Lutija and Warlpiri. The exhibit reveals how the western desert art movement has placed Aboriginal art firmly in the international arena. “What’s made it such an exciting art form is that it has transformed the way we understand the land and the country,’’ says Art Gallery of New South Wales curator Hetti Perkins, who organised an exhibition tracing the Papunya Tula art movement for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. It may be great to gamble if think you are losing but maybe not so good if you think you are winning.29 July 2000 – For audiences around the world, earthy dot paintings from Papunya in the western desert represent everything that is awe inspiring about Australian Aboriginal art. This is still lucky but now it is a choice. So, if the space says "get $500k", instead you can choose to bet $500k (if you have it) and you may lose it, keep it, double it, or even treble it. 10-12 double bet but any double automatically trebles the bet. Bet x dollars and roll two dice: 2-5 lose bet. Betting VariantĪll the lucky "get free money spaces" are replaced with a betting game. (if playing with Set Collection Variant). This may be a hard decision if your painting is low value but is a symbol you are collecting. When landing on this space discard one of your paintings (for no money) and replace with a new painting from the bank. The space that says "inherit painting from bank" is replaced with "swap painting with the bank". It should help auctions be more unpredictable, as you may lose a symbol you wanted but may get more cash than normal for the art, especially if people are fighting over the symbol. This makes art have potential value besides the random value card. In the event of TIES: no-one gets the bonus! You must have the painting in your hand at the end of game to count for the bonus. ![]() This is because keeping the majority of the paintings with 10 stickers is harder than the paintings with only 6 stickers. The end of game bonuses are $250k, $500k, and $750k. Red dots stickers are on 6 paintings, blue dot stickers on 8 paintings, and yellow dot stickers on the other 10 paintings. There are 3 different colors with one sticker on each card. Put colored circle stickers on all of the paintings. Get an 'end of game set collection bonus' for having the majority of unsold paintings still in your hand for each of the three colored stickers before the final monetary count up. Do I sell the painting to get extra money or do I keep it for the final set collection bonus but run the risk if losing it via a private auction? Set Collection Variant When combined with the other variants this introduces some interesting strategy to the game. You can bluff opponents by revaluing a forgery but the painting is still worthless - a forgery is still a forgery! The same painting can be revalued multiple times. For example, a 5 increases the value of a painting by $500k. The value of the painting is increased by the value of the counter multiplied by $100k. Simply reach into the cloth bag and randomly draw out a counter but be careful that the other players don't see the counter. You must choose which painting is being revalued before choosing a counter. Any time you roll a double you can 'revalue' one of your paintings (if you have one). A number of counters valued 1-5 (5 of each) are placed into a cloth bag. ![]()
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