Comments by "" (@DanielSMatthews) on "Vincent Namatjira becomes first Indigenous Archibald Prize winner" video.

  1. It is also a bit of an insult in that it implies that this is the most skilled and profound work that an indigenous artist can manage. Obviously the entire thing was set up a long time ago so they had plenty of time for their community to produce something that could have impressed people in its own right while also being distinctly indigenous.
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  2.  @homebrew332  Yeah it is totally political and so obvious that it is cringeworthy, still I think they really could have done something far better on the aesthetic and philosophical level. It is not as if their styles are incompatible with sophisticated portraiture, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_1KGXeUIAA75Vs.jpg (Carbiene McDonald Tjangala in the Style of Carbiene McDonald Tjangala)
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  3. Oh gosh, well that is embarrassing. I guess it is fitting that it happened in 2020, a most fucked up of years on so many levels, but we can probably also look forward to it never happening again.
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