TAREE, AUSTRALIA.- Artist Geoffrey Bardon, 62, died. He was credited with teaching Aborigines to paint commercially, creating a multimillion-dollar Aboriginal fine art industry. Time magazine wrote in 1999 of him: "Sydney-born art teacher Geoffrey Bardon ignited an artistic revolution in the Central Australian desert in 1971. Fascinated by his pupils’ drawings in the sand, he encouraged tribal elders in the Aboriginal settlement of Papunya to record their ancestral myths on the school wall. Their Honey Ant Dreaming mural enthused the whole community; soon many were painting dot and circle-path designs--traditionally recorded on the body and the ground--for the first time on board and canvas, in acrylic paint supplied by Bardon. This extraordinary cultural flowering spread to other settlements, and the Western Desert movement became the cornerstone of a multi-million-dollar Aboriginal fine-art industry."