Shirlie Purdie The Upper Room Analysis

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Shirlie Purdie was taught how to paint by her mother, Madigan Thomas, and major indigenous artist, Queenie McKenzie. She lives and paints at Warmun, not far from her birthplace. (Shirlie Purdie, Wikipedia)
Shirlie Purdie contemporises Christian symbols through her traditional Aboriginal painting, Stations of the Cross, it depicts
Purdie’s artwork contemporizes the New Testament of the Bible and some of the most important Christian moments in Christian history.

Chris Ofili is best known for his vibrant and inventive artworks which examine a contemporised black experience. Ofili’s artwork, The Upper Room, contemporises Christian symbols by its representation of 13 rhesus macaque monkey’s, each dominated by a unique colour facing a single larger

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