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Mineral Earth Painting of Swimming Mimbres Turtles by Pablita Velarde - C3876L
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Wed, Feb 8th 2017, 3:23pm
Pablita Velarde (1918-2006) Tse Tsan - Golden Dawn of Santa Clara Pueblo is best known for her earth paintings, where she used mineral and rock elements, which she would grind on a metate and mano until the result was a powdery substance from which she made her paints. This is an earth painting illustrating five Mimbres turtles swimming through some plant materials. Pablita made a varied color and varied shape background to provide visual contrast to the painting.
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