Pinta Pinta Tjapanangka (late 1920s – 1999) was an Australian

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ist. He was one of the first members of the Papunya Tula art movement. He is a well-known painter of Western Desert art. He belonged to the Pintupi community, and painted stories from the Pintupi Dreaming (''Tingari''). He painted

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events that happened around his homeland, including around Winparrku, Lake MacDonald and Lake Mackay. Pinta Pinta was from Western Australia. He was born at Yumari, a place in the

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. He was probably born sometime in the late 1920s (around 1927 or 1928). Before contact with White society, he lived a nomadic way of life in the desert. In the 1950s, he walked with his family to stay at Haasts Bluff, a government

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outpost. This was his first contact with modern Australian civilisation. His was one of the last groups in the country to come out of the desert. Pinta Pinta began painting in the mid-1970s, at Papunya. He moved to Kintore after it was founded in 1981. In 1984, Pinta Pinta and his family set up an outstation at Winparrku (Mount Webb), between Kintore and Kiwirrkurra. The family moved here shortly after. In 1988, he had a small part in the movie '' Evil Angels''. His paintings mostly stick to black, white and

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in colour. The most obvious

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seen in them is the circles and lines, which depict dreaming tracks. Some of his works are in the Australian Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. He had two sons, Matthew (born early 1960s) and Nyilyari (born about 1965). Nyilyari also became a famous artist.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tjapanangka, Pinta Pinta Indigenous Australian artists Australian painters 1920s births 1999 deaths Artists from Western Australia Artists from the Northern Territory Pintupi