Emily Kngwarreye

Emily Kngwarreye - Big Yam Dreaming - 1995

Can you enjoy a painting if you don’t know or can’t understand it’s meaning. Well i do love this painting, but I know nothing of the story or meaning behind it. To be brutally honest I kind of don’t want to know. I have my reasons for enjoying this work art. I’m sure the way I appreciate this painting would have nothing to do with the story behind it. 

I guess what i’m trying to say is like with a song someone might write and has a very person meaning to the musician but to millions of other people they put their own emotion values onto the song and make it about something very special to them that has nothing to do with the original meaning of the song. I think the same can be done with any other art work.