Aboriginal art
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The document outlines two main styles of Aboriginal art: Central (desert) art featuring symbols, dots, and landscape, and Northern art characterized by real objects and figures with earthy colors. It highlights the evolution of contemporary Aboriginal art that integrates traditional techniques with modern themes and colors, particularly through dot painting. The piece also describes the significance of the Papunya Tula movement in the emergence of dot painting as a spiritual expressive form rooted in storytelling and ancestral journeys.
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Aboriginal art
- 3. Types of Aboriginal Art There are two distinct styles of Aboriginal Art:
- 4. Central (desert) Art FEATURES: Symbols Dots Aerial View Landscape Traditionally drawn in the sand and for body adornment
- 5. Northern Art FEATURES Real objects & figures (not symbols) X-Ray drawings Lines & cross-hatching “Flat” drawings Earthy colours Painted on bark
- 6. Contemporary (modern)Aboriginal Art Aboriginal artists of today combine traditional painting techniques with modern themes, images and colours.
- 7. Today, many Aboriginal artists incorporate dot painting into their art work. Also, with the availability of acrylic paints, the traditional use of ochre to make their paint, which gave the Aboriginal dot painting and art work their ‘earthy’ colours, has given way to more contemporary and bright colours, as used by Bronwyn Bancroft in a lot of her book illustrations.
- 9. Gertie Huddleston Garden of Eden
- 11. Art of Papunya Tula
- 12. The emergence of “dot” paintings
- 13. Papunya Tula Traditional Aboriginal dot painting is an Aboriginal art form that was prominent in the Central Western parts of Australia. The dot painting style itself, originated from the Papunya art movement in the 1970’s. Papunya Tula artists used a process of drawings in the sand to be used in spiritual ceremonies. In such rituals the soil would be smoothed over and used like a ‘canvas’ to represent sacred designs, replicate movements of ancestral beings upon earth. These Dreaming designs were outlined with dancing circles and were often surrounded with a mass of dots. Afterward the imprinted earth would be smoothed over, painted bodies rubbed away, so as to hide the sacred secrets which had taken place.
- 15. How to “dot paint”
- 16. Aboriginal Art tells a story The narrative follows the lie of the land, as created by ancestral beings in their journey or during creation. The Last Journey of Christ Artist: Kutjunga
- 18. Your Task Create a painting representing your journey through the landscape from home to school.
- 19. How? Find directions from your home to school on Google Maps.
- 20. How? Identify features of the landscape and develop symbols for them.
- 21. How? Draw a draft design of your journey, based on the Google Map, in your Art Diary.
- 22. How? When you are happy with your design, lightly copy it onto the canvas. Divide the background into sections.
- 23. How? Paint the sections using contemporary colours, adding contrasting dots using the paintbrush handle when dry. (Paint route from home to school in black).