Aboriginal hollow log tomb

Aboriginal art is art done by Australian Aborigines, covering art that pre-dates European colonisation as well as contemporary art by Aborigines based on traditional culture. It includes a wide variety of media including painting, wood carving, sculpture and ceremonial clothing, as well as artistic embellishments found on weaponry and tools. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1067x1600, 404 KB) Aboriginal hollow log tombs - National Gallery Canberra File links The following pages link to this file: Australian Aboriginal art ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1067x1600, 404 KB) Aboriginal hollow log tombs - National Gallery Canberra File links The following pages link to this file: Australian Aboriginal art ... Australian Aborigines are the main indigenous people of Australia. ... // Prehistory and aboriginal legends Humans first arrived in Australia through Indonesia and New Guinea, either by paddling canoes across the Timor Sea or by crossing a land bridge across what is now Torres Strait, between New Guinea and Australia. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ...

Art is one of the key rituals of Aboriginal culture and is used to mark territory, record history, and tell stories about the dreamtime. opens chapter nine of The Dreaming Universe (1994) entitled The Dreamtime with a quote from The Last Wave, a film by Peter Weir: Aboriginals believe in two forms of time. ...

Aboriginal painting

Aboriginal rock painting at Namadgi National Park featuring a Kangaroo, Dingoes, Emus, Humans and an Echidna or Turtle

Traditionally, paints were often made from water or spittle mixed with ochre and other rock pigments. Painting was then performed on people, rock walls or bark (particular that of the paperbark gum). Tools used included primitive brushes, sticks, fingers and even a technique of spraying the paint directly out of the mouth onto the medium resulting in an effect similar to modern spraypaint. Aboriginal Art can be made up of a series of dots lines or just the outline of a shape. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 754 KB) Yankee Hat Aboriginal Artwork in Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 754 KB) Yankee Hat Aboriginal Artwork in Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory. ... Namadgi National Park is located in the southwestern part of the Australian Capital Territory, bordering Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales. ... This article is about the animal. ... For other uses, see Dingo (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see EMU. Binomial name (Latham, 1790) The Emu has been recorded in the areas shown in orange. ... This article is about modern humans. ... For other senses of this word, see echidna (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Turtle (disambiguation). ... Saliva is the watery and usually frothy substance produced in the mouths of humans and some animals. ... The plant genus Melaleuca is part of the Myrtle family (Myrtaceae) and presently contains about 170 species. ... This article is about the plant genus. ... For other uses, see Brush (disambiguation). ... Look up stick, sticks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Mouth (disambiguation). ... Spray painting is painting using a device that sprays the paint. ...

There are a wide variety of styles of Aboriginal art. Three common types are the cross-hatch or X-ray art from the Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory, in which the skeletons and viscera of the animals and humans portrayed are drawn inside the outline, as if by cross-section; dot-painting where intricate patterns, totems and/or stories are created using dots; and stencil art, particular using the motif of a handprint. More simple designs of straight lines, circles and spirals, with the occasional zig zag persist throughout the work of Australian Aborigines. These are thought to be the origins of "modern" Aboriginal Art. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, X-ray represents the letter X. An X-ray picture (radiograph) taken by Röntgen An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength approximately in the range of 5 pm to 10 nanometers (corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz... Arnhem Land is an area of 97,000 km² in the north-eastern corner of the Northern Territory, Australia. ... For similar terms, see Northern Territories (disambiguation) Slogan or Nickname: The Territory, The NT, The Top End Motto(s): none Other Australian states and territories Capital Darwin Government Constitutional monarchy Administrator Ted Egan Chief Minister Clare Martin (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 2  - Senate seats 2 Gross Territorial Product (2004... For other uses, see Skeleton (disambiguation). ... In anatomy, the viscera are the internal organs of an animal, in particular the internal organs of the head, thorax and abdomen. ... For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation). ... Cross section may refer to the following In geometry, Cross section is the intersection of a 3-dimensional body with a plane. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A totem is any entity which watches over or assists a group of people, such as a family, clan or tribe (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary [1] and Websters New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition). ...

One type of Aboriginal painting is known as the Bradshaws, some ancient rock art which appears on caves in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. They are named after the European pastoralist, Joseph Bradshaw, who discovered them in 1891. Dampier, Western Australia also has the world's largest collection of petroglyphs, another ancient style of aboriginal art. Traditional aboriginal art is composed of organic colours and materials, but modern artists often use synthetic paints when creating aboriginal styles. For the railway timetable, see Bradshaw (or its originator, George Bradshaw). ... The Kimberley is one of the nine regions of Western Australia, consisting of the local government areas of Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek and Wyndham-East Kimberley. ... Dampier is a major industrial port in the north-west of Western Australia, located at 20. ... For other uses, see Petroglyph (disambiguation). ...

"Dotting" or "Dot Painting"

The so-called 'dot painting" refers in large part to the origins of the Papunya painting movement of the 1970s. The dots were used by olly davis to cover secret-sacred ceremonies. Originally, the paintings were used in addition to the oral history of Aboriginal dreamings and so they were made for cultural purposes and not the art market. The dots are, in effect, a form of camouflage: Papunya (23°13′ S 131°54′ E), is a small Indigenous Australian community of about 350 people roughly 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia. ... Dreaming is a common term among Indigenous Australians for a personal, or group, creation story and for the mythological time of creation, as well as for the places where the creation spirits now lie dormant in the land. ...

"In 1972, the [Papunya Tula] artists succeeded in forming their own company with an Aboriginal Name: Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd...however a time of disillusionment followed as artists were criticised by their peers for having revealed too much of their sacred heritage. Secret designs restricted to a ritual context were now in the market place, made visible to kardiya outsiders and Aboriginal women. In response to these objections, all detailed depictions of human figures, fully decorated tjurungas (bullroarers) and ceremonial paraphernalia were removed or modified. Such designs and their 'inside' meanings were not to be written down and 'traded'. Any contravention broke the immutable plan of descent, the link of the initiated men with his totemic ancestor through his father and his father's father. From 1973 to 1975, Papunya Tula artists sought to camouflage overt references to ceremony and became reticent. They revealed less of the sacred heart of their culture. The openness of the Bardon era was at an end. Dotting and over-dotting, as an ideal means of concealing or painting over dangerous, secret designs, became a fashion at this stage. The art was made public, watered down for general exhibition, pointing to the uniqueness of the Geoffrey Bardon years - which like innocence, cannot be rediscovered." (Judith Ryan in Bardon 1991: ix-x) Papunya Tula, or Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, is an artists cooperative, formed in 1972 to market the paintings of a group of Aboriginal Australian men who had begun painting traditional designs using western art materials at the Papunya settlement, 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in Central Australia in... Geoffrey Robert Bardon (1940, Sydney – 2003) was an Australian school teacher who was instrumental in bringing desert art, or dot art to the attention of the world. ...

Bark painting

Aboriginal memorial at the NGA

The barest necessities for bark artwork are paint, brushes, bark, fixative and a fire. The bark chosen must be free of knots and other blemishes. It is best cut from the tree in the wet season when the sap is rising Two horizontal slices and a single vertical slice are made into the tree, and the bark is then carefully peeled off with the aid of a sharpened tool. Only the inner smooth bark is kept and placed in a fire. After heating in the fire, the bark is flattened under foot and weighted with stones or logs to dry flat. The 'canvas' is then ready to paint upon. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 495 KB) Aboriginal hollow log tombs - National Gallery Canberra File links The following pages link to this file: Australian Aboriginal art ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 495 KB) Aboriginal hollow log tombs - National Gallery Canberra File links The following pages link to this file: Australian Aboriginal art ... National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia is a major art gallery (museum) in Canberra, Australia. ...

After the painting is completed, the bark is splinted at either end to keep the painting flat. A fixative, traditionally orchid juice, is added over top.

Carvings and sculpture

• Carved shells

Various seashells Danielle A shell is the hard, rigid outer covering, or integument, allanimals. ...

Religious and cultural aspects of Aboriginal art

Aboriginal art at Uluru

Traditional Aboriginal art almost always has a mythological undertone relating to the Dreamtime of Australian Aborigines. Many modern purists will say if it doesn't contain the spirituality of aborigines, it is not true aboriginal art.^{[citation needed]} Wenten Rubuntja, an Aboriginal landscape artist says it's hard to find any art that is devoid of spiritual meaning; Image File history File links Uluru_2. ... Image File history File links Uluru_2. ... For the band, see Ayers Rock (band). ... Representation of the Rainbow serpent, the Waugal The Dreamtime is the central, unifying theme in Australian Aboriginal mythology. ... W. Rubuntja (c. ...

"Doesn't matter what sort of painting we do in this country, it still belongs to the people, all the people. This is worship, work, culture. It's all Dreaming. There are two ways of painting. Both ways are important, because that's culture." - source The Weekend Australian Magazine, April, 2002

Aboriginal art showing Barramundi fish

Story telling and totem representation feature prominently in all forms of Aboriginal artwork. Additionally the female form, particularly the female womb in X-ray style features prominently in some famous sites in Arnhem Land. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 206 KB) Summary Aboriginal art, from GNU image on German wikipedia. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 206 KB) Summary Aboriginal art, from GNU image on German wikipedia. ... Binomial name Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) The barramundi (Lates calcarifer) is a species of diadromous fish in family Centropomidae of order Perciformes. ... The womb is the major female reproductive organ of most mammals, including humans. ...

Graffiti and other destructive influences

Many culturally significant sites of Aboriginal rock paintings have been gradually desecrated and destroyed by encroachment of early settlers and modern-day visitors. This includes the destruction of art by clearing and construction work, erosion caused by excessive touching of sites, and graffiti. Many sites now belonging to National Parks have to be strictly monitored by rangers, or closed off to the public permanently. For morphological image processing operations, see Erosion (morphology). ...

Modern Aboriginal Artists

Art work by Richard Bell

In 1934 Australian painter Rex Batterbee taught Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira western style watercolour landscape painting, along with other Aboriginal artists at the Hermannsburg mission in the Northern Territory. It became a popular style, known as the Hermannsburg School, and sold out when the paintings were exhibited in Melbourne, Adelaide and other Australian cities. Namatjira became the first Aboriginal Australian citizen, as a result of his fame and popularity with these watercolour paintings. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 405 KB) Artwork by Richard Bell - National Museum, Canberra File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Australian Aboriginal art ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 405 KB) Artwork by Richard Bell - National Museum, Canberra File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Australian Aboriginal art ... Namatjira outside Government House, Sydney, circa 1947. ... This article deals with the community in Australia. ... For similar terms, see Northern Territories (disambiguation) Slogan or Nickname: The Territory, The NT, The Top End Motto(s): none Other Australian states and territories Capital Darwin Government Constitutional monarchy Administrator Ted Egan Chief Minister Clare Martin (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 2  - Senate seats 2 Gross Territorial Product (2004... The Hermannsburg School is an art movement, or art style, which began at the Hermannsburg mission in the 1930s. ...

In 1966, one of David Malangi's designs was produced on the Australian one dollar note, originally without his knowledge. The subsequent payment to him by the Reserve Bank marked the first case of Aboriginal copyright in Australian copyright law. David Malangi, (1927-1999) Aboriginal artist from the Northern Territory. ... Australian copyright law is based on the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and defines copyright in Australia. ...

In 1988 an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander memorial was unveiled at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra made from 200 hollow log coffins, which are similar to the type used for mortuary ceremonies in Arnhem Land. It was made for the bicentenary of Australia's colonisation, and is in remembrance of Aboriginal people who had died protecting their land during conflict with settlers. Made by 43 artists from Ramingining and communities nearby. The path running through the middle of it represents the Glyde River. National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia is a major art gallery (museum) in Canberra, Australia. ... For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ...

In that same year, the the new Parliament House in Canberra opened with a forecourt featuring a superimposed painting by Michael Nelson Tjakamarra.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the work of Emily Kngwarreye became very popular. Although she had been involved in craftwork for most of her life, it was only when she was in her 80s that she was recognised as a painter. She was from the Utopia community north east of Alice Springs. The period of her life when she was painting was only for a few years near the end of her life. Her styles which changed every year, have been seen as a mixture of traditional Aboriginal and contemporary Australian. Cleanup|August 2006}}Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-2 September 1996), Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. ... Utopia is the name of a former cattle station (established 1927) located more than 200 kilometres northeast of Alice Springs in Australias Northern Territory. ... Alice Springs on a large scale map Alice Springs is a large town in the Northern Territory of Australia located at 23°42′ S 133°52′ E. Its population of 28,178 (2001 Census) makes it the second-largest settlement in the Territory (the only other towns of...

Rover Thomas is another well known modern Australian Aboriginal artist. Born in Western Australia, he represented Australia in the Venice Biennale of 1991. He knew and encouraged another well known artist to paint, Queenie McKenzie, from the East Kimberley / Warmun region! Slogan or Nickname: Wildflower State or the Golden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Ken Michael Premier Alan Carpenter (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 15  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2005-06)  - Product ($m)  $107,910 (4th)  - Product per capita  $53,134/person... Detail of exhibition. ...

Papunya Tula

Main article: Papunya Tula

In 1971-1972, art teacher Geoffrey Bardon encouraged Aboriginal people in Papunya, north west of Alice Springs to put their Dreamings onto canvas. These stories had previously been drawn on the desert sand, and were now given a more permament form. Eventually the style, known as the Papunya Tula school, or sometimes popularly as 'dot art', became the most recognisable form of Australian Aboriginal painting. Much of the Aboriginal art on display in tourist shops traces back to this style developed at Papunya. The most famous of the artists to come from this movement was Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Also from this movement is Johnny Warangkula, whose Water Dreaming at Kalipinya twice sold at a record price, the second time being $486,500 in 2000. Papunya Tula, or Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, is an artists cooperative, formed in 1972 to market the paintings of a group of Aboriginal Australian men who had begun painting traditional designs using western art materials at the Papunya settlement, 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in Central Australia in... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For university teachers, see professor. ... Geoffrey Robert Bardon (1940, Sydney – 2003) was an Australian school teacher who was instrumental in bringing desert art, or dot art to the attention of the world. ... Papunya (23°13′ S 131°54′ E), is a small Indigenous Australian community of about 350 people roughly 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia. ... Alice Springs on a large scale map Alice Springs is a large town in the Northern Territory of Australia located at 23°42′ S 133°52′ E. Its population of 28,178 (2001 Census) makes it the second-largest settlement in the Territory (the only other towns of... Dreaming is a common term among Indigenous Australians for a personal, or group, creation story and for the mythological time of creation, as well as for the places where the creation spirits now lie dormant in the land. ... This article is about arid terrain. ... Papunya Tula, or Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, is an artists cooperative, formed in 1972 to market the paintings of a group of Aboriginal Australian men who had begun painting traditional designs using western art materials at the Papunya settlement, 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in Central Australia in... Papunya (23°13′ S 131°54′ E), is a small Indigenous Australian community of about 350 people roughly 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia. ... Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1933—21 June 2002) was an Australian painter considered one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. ...

In 1983, some members of the Papunya movement, unhappy with the way their paintings were sold to private dealers, moved to Yuendumu and began painting 36 doors at the school there with their Dreaming stories, which started an art movement there. In 1985 the Warlukwlangu artists association was founded at Yuendumu, which co-ordinates the artists in the area. The best-known painter from this movement is Paddy Japaljarri Stewart. Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Yuendumu (22°15′ S 131°47′ E) is a town in the Northern Territory in Australia. ... This article is about the year. ... Paddy Japaljarri Stewart, Australian aboriginal artist. ...

Exploitation of Artists

There have been cases of some exploitative dealers (known as carpetbaggers) that have sought to profit from the success of the Aboriginal art movements. Since Geoffrey Bardon's time and in the early years of the Papunya movement, there has been concerns about the exploitation of the largely illiterate and non-English speaking artists.

One of the main reasons the Yuendumu movement was established, and later flourished, was due to the feeling of exploitation amongst artists:

"Many of the artists who played crucial roles in the founding of the art centre were aware of the increasing interest in Aboriginal art during the 1970s and had watched with concern and curiosity the developments of the art movement at Papunya amongst people to whom they were closely related. There was also a growing private market for Aboriginal art in Alice Springs. Artists' experiences of the private market were marked by feelings of frustration and a sense of disempowerment when buyers refused to pay prices which reflected the value of the Jukurrpa or showed little interest in understanding the story. The establishment of Warlukurlangu was one way of ensuring the artists had some control over the purchase and distribution of their paintings." (Source: Warlukurlangu Artists)

Other cases of exploitation include:

• painting for a lemon (car): "Artists have come to me and pulled out photos of cars with mobile phone numbers on the back. They're asked to paint 10-15 canvasses in exchange for a car. When the 'Toyotas' materalise, they often arrive with a flat tyre, no spares, no jack, no fuel." (Coslovich 2003)

• preying on a sick artist: "Even coming to town for medical treatment, such as dialysis, can make an artist easy prey for dealers wanting to make a quick profit who congregate in Alice Springs" (op.cit.)

• pursuing a famous artist: "The late (great) Emily Kngwarreye...was relentlessly pursued by carpetbaggers towards the end of her career and produced a large but inconsistent body of work." According to Sotheby's "We take about one in every 20 paintings of hers, and with those we look for provenance we can be 100% sure of." (op.cit.)

In March 2006, the ABC reported art fraud had hit the Western Australian Aboriginal Art movements. Allegations were made of sweatshop-like conditions, fake works by English backpackers, overpricing and artists posing for photographs for artwork that weren't theirs. A detective on the case said: Cleanup|August 2006}}Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-2 September 1996), Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. ...

"People are clearly taking advantage...Especially the elderly people. I mean, these are people that, they're not educated; they haven't had a lot of contact with white people. They've got no real basic understanding, you know, of the law and even business law. Obviously they've got no real business sense. A dollar doesn't really have much of a meaning to them, and I think to treat anybody like that is just… it's just not on in this country."Call for ACCC to investigate Aboriginal Art industry, ABC PM, March 15.

Fraud

Cases of fraud abound in this lucrative industry.

The late Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (c.1937-2002), a Mara elder from Boroloola in south-east Arnhem land, revealed in 1999 that he had "risked his career by revealing he had signed at least 50 forged paintings under duress while drunk." This admission sparked a brief investigation into Aboriginal art forgeries. The Age (2002) Ginger Riley, the 'boss of colour' dies

Aboriginal Art Movements and Co-operatives

• Aboriginal Art Organisation - official link to Aboriginal-owned and operated Art Centres' websites
• ANKAA: Association of Northern, Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists - peak advocacy and support agency
• Balgo / Warlayirti Artists
• Bula'Bula Arts - Central Arnhem Land
• Desart: Association of Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Centres
• Elcho Island
• Ernabella Arts - traditional owners of Uluru
• Hermannsburg Potters - descendants of the Hermannsburg School
• Ikuntji/Haast's Bluff
• Irrunytju Arts
• Iwantja Arts
• Keringke Arts - Santa Teresa
• Mangkaja - Fitzroy Crossing, WA
• Maningrida Arts
• Maruku Arts, Uluru
• Merrepen Arts from Daly River
• Milingimbi Arts
• Mimi Arts - Katherine, NT
• National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
• Ngukurr Arts - SE Arnhem Land
• Papunya Tula
• Titjikala
• Tjanpi Aboriginal Baskets - Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjarra Yankunytjatjara Women's Council
• Tiwi Island Artists
• Waralungku Arts - Boroloola, NT
• Warlukurlangu Artists from Yuendumu
• Warmun (Turkey Creek) Gija Artists
• Waringarri Aboriginal Arts - Kununurra
• Yirrkala (Buku-Larrngay Artists from NE Arnhem Land

List of contemporary Aboriginal artists

Main articles: Prominent Indigenous Australians, Papunya Tula, and Hermannsburg School

• Albert Namatjira
• Wenten Rubuntja
• Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
• Dorothy Napangardi
• Rover Thomas
• Naata Nungurrayi
• Emily Kngwarreye
• Paddy Japaljarri Stewart
• Yannima Tommy Watson

Various indigenous Australian cultures consider the reference of deceased persons - whether in name or in image - to be taboo. ... Papunya Tula, or Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, is an artists cooperative, formed in 1972 to market the paintings of a group of Aboriginal Australian men who had begun painting traditional designs using western art materials at the Papunya settlement, 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in Central Australia in... The Hermannsburg School is an art movement, or art style, which began at the Hermannsburg mission in the 1930s. ... Namatjira outside Government House, Sydney, circa 1947. ... W. Rubuntja (c. ... Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1933—21 June 2002) was an Australian painter considered one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. ... Dorothy Napangardi (b. ... Rover Thomass painting Cyclone Tracy (1991) Rover Thomas Joolama (c. ... Naata Nungurrayi is an Australian Aboriginal artist who was born at the site of Kumil, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia, in 1932. ... Cleanup|August 2006}}Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-2 September 1996), Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. ... Paddy Japaljarri Stewart, Australian aboriginal artist. ... Yannima Tommy Watson is a senior Pitjantjatjara artist who was born in the mid-1930’s some 44km west of the tiny isolated community of Irrunytju in Australia’s central western desert. ...

Famous sites of Aboriginal art

• Bradshaws
• Carnarvon Gorge
• Kakadu
• Uluru

These are the most significant sites. For the railway timetable, see Bradshaw (or its originator, George Bradshaw). ... Carnarvon Gorge is a large gorge of the Great Dividing Range in central Queensland. ... Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 km east of Darwin. ... For the band, see Ayers Rock (band). ...

See also

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Australian Aboriginal art

• Art of Australia
• Dreaming
• Geoffrey Bardon
• Hermannsburg School
• Papunya Tula
• Prominent indigenous Australians
• Yolngu

Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... The Art of Australia refers to both Australian Aboriginal art and Post Colonial art. ... Dreaming is a common term among Indigenous Australians for a personal, or group, creation story and for the mythological time of creation, as well as for the places where the creation spirits now lie dormant in the land. ... Geoffrey Robert Bardon (1940, Sydney – 2003) was an Australian school teacher who was instrumental in bringing desert art, or dot art to the attention of the world. ... The Hermannsburg School is an art movement, or art style, which began at the Hermannsburg mission in the 1930s. ... Papunya Tula, or Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, is an artists cooperative, formed in 1972 to market the paintings of a group of Aboriginal Australian men who had begun painting traditional designs using western art materials at the Papunya settlement, 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in Central Australia in... Various indigenous Australian cultures consider the reference of deceased persons - whether in name or in image - to be taboo. ... For Yolngu language see Yolngu Matha. ...

References

• Bardon, G. (1979) Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, Adelaide: Rigby
• Bardon, G. (1991) Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert, Ringwood VIC: McPhee Gribble (Penguin)
• Bardon, G. (2005) Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, University of Melbourne: Miegunyah Press

External links

• ABC News Indigenous Australian Visual Arts and Artists
• Aboriginal Artists - State Library of NSW
• National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Northern Territory Government
• Oscar's Sketchbook -- Late 1800s pencil drawings by a young Aboriginal man, National Museum of Australia