Aboriginal Art
By Sarah Fernando
ABORIGINAL ARTWORK
Aboriginal Artwork is the oldest form of artwork in Australia. Aboriginal artwork is painted to represent stories with each other, because there is no written language in Aboriginal language. They also used dots, lines and symbols to represent their work.
WHERE THEY PAINTED THEIR ARTWORK
Aboriginals used and still paint their paintings in caves in central Australia. They also paint them on their body or they paint artwork for special occasions. Body paintings are mostly used in dances.
TYPES OF PAINTINGS
There are heaps of different types of Aboriginal paintings. Some of them are:
Dot paintings
Bark Paintings
Body Paintings
Wood Carving
These types of paintings are used in many paintings.
WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE
Aboriginal artwork used many different things on it as such as:
Dots
Lines
Symbols
These are the basic most important things that Aboriginal artists use in their paintings.
WHAT THEY PAINT THEIR ARTWORK WITH
Most artists used rocks and stone to create there artwork. The most important part of artwork is orch, an orche is a type of rock or stone. It comes in different colors from pale yellow dark to reddish brown.
MATERIAL THEY USED TO MAKE PAINT
Paint was made out of Ochre pigmants, emu fats and kangaroo oil. These different materials were mixed and done sort of more different things to make more colors.
FAMOUS ABORIGINAL ARTISTS
There are lots of famous Aboriginal artists. These are just some some artists:
Kathleen Petyarre
Gloria Petyarre
Albert Namatjiri
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