Aboriginal rock paintings appear earthly and innate to their surroundings, yet often mysterious and supernatural. The naturalness is partly due to its unique ragged canvas. The rock or cave wall is from nature, formed from various stones, surfaces, consistencies, heights and lengths. Wet ochres and rocks as the painting tools also signal an attachment to the tangible world.
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Dot paintings today are recognised globally as unique and integral to Australian Aboriginal art. On the surface the dot is simply a style of Aboriginal painting, like the use of cross-hatching or stencil art. Exploring deeper into the history of the Aboriginal dot painting a world of camouflage, secrecy and ritual is discovered.
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'Which ever style we use it’s still the same Dreaming story' said Albert Namatjira. The first indigenous artist to paint with watercolour on paper was Albert Namatjira. Although he grasped the ‘European style’ of perspective, Namatjira depicted the Central Desert landscape as it had never been seen before. Six generations later, Peter Taylor Tjutatja remains one of a very few artist to paint in this tradition.
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Utopia Aboriginal Art and the Utopia Aboriginal artists today follow the tradition of the famous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye who paved the way for a contemporary and abstract style referenced to awelye (Women’s Ceremony) and depicted in fine dotting work. Women artists dominate this community as they maintain their traditional ceremonial ways paying homage in their art work to their role as food gatherers.
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The Balgo Hills (Wirrimanu) region represents a melting pot of several different cultural groups. As a result, the art from this region is dynamic, daring and challenging in a variety of styles in a variety of styles of notable for the vibrant use of colour.
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The dominant narrative of Pintupi art is the Tingari cycle – the stories of the extensive journeys of Pintupi ancestors as they covered the great expanses of the desert regions to create landforms and teach law. The art is notable both for its contemporary abstract style yet deeply traditional in its themes. A dominant mode is the circle and line motif and the art works are usually presented in traditional colours in raw pigments, clays and charcoal: red, yellow, white and black.
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In 1971, with the encouragement of a Geoffrey Bardon, a European art teacher at Papunya, contemporary Aboriginal art, known as the Papunya Tula Art Movement, began. Starting with a mural on the external wall of the school yard, the art movement at Papunya evolved both in style, technique and imagery.
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Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Jagamara talks about his beginnings as a painter and his early art mentors.
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Malcolm Jagamarra talks to Sabine about the Lander River 2006 Painting and the importance of the Lander River to his art and dreaming.
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