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Brunka tribe: 'A Homage to Our Ancestors' - Acrylic on canvas, Melvin Gonzalez,
$570.00
Code: MITA030
Size: 18 x 28" (46 x 71.5 cms)
A powerful painted theme by indigenous artist, Melvin Gonzalez. Gonzalez is a ceremonial participant in the Brunka tribe's venerable 'danza/juego de los diablitos' and is a celebrated mask maker and mural painter. This acrylic on canvas composition is an evocative study of a celebrated poison dart frog species of their territory. First as a realistically rendered natural history study of this frog which then dialogues in the same composition with ancestral depictions of this amphibian: in petroglyph and a cast-gold amulet both from pre-European times.
Size: 18 x 28" (46 x 71.5 cms)
A powerful painted theme by indigenous artist, Melvin Gonzalez. Gonzalez is a ceremonial participant in the Brunka tribe's venerable 'danza/juego de los diablitos' and is a celebrated mask maker and mural painter. This acrylic on canvas composition is an evocative study of a celebrated poison dart frog species of their territory. First as a realistically rendered natural history study of this frog which then dialogues in the same composition with ancestral depictions of this amphibian: in petroglyph and a cast-gold amulet both from pre-European times.