The 5 Most Well-known of Aboriginal Australian Art Style

Ancient Indigenous Australians used Aboriginal art as their main written language to pass on cultural stories, traditions, and beliefs. Aboriginal art is a sacred way to pass on stories about the Dreamtime and pictures of animals, people, and the land. It is also the oldest art tradition that has been going on for a long time. Today, there is a market for modern Aboriginal art, and ancient rock art sites are known all over the world for their historical and cultural importance. These are some of the most well-known styles of Australian Aboriginal art.

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Aboriginal Australian Art Style: #1 Painting by Dots

During the Papunya Tula Art Movement in the 1970s, dot painting came into being. It is an important part of Aboriginal art from Australia. Indigenous painters can hide symbols and sacred knowledge by using both small and large dots. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri is one of the best-known artists in this field. The National Gallery of Australia paid a record AU$2.4 million for his painting Warlugulong.

The 5 Most Well-known of Aboriginal Australian Art Style — dot painting © | Peter Shanks/Flickr

Aboriginal Australian Art Style: #2 Cross Stitch

Cross Hatching, which is also called Rarrk painting, is common in Northern Australia, where the Aboriginal Kunwinjku people use it to make ceremonial paintings. Cross Hatching is a style of art made with reeds or human hair. It uses parallel lines to show sea creatures and reptiles. In some cases, Kunwinjku art shows parts of the body. This kind of crosshatching is called “x-ray art,” and it has been around for a very long time. Aboriginal people from Kunwinjku believe that the patterns that are used to make the technique have spiritual power.

Rex Features | An X-ray style painting of a kangaroo made out of bark. This painting looks like it was made by a member of a group of Kunwinjku artists who worked in the 1950s. It has unusual crosshatching patterns called “rarrk” and a figure that is too big for the frame. Australia is where it comes from. Culture: Aboriginal. Date or time frame: 20th C. Western Arnhem Land is where they come from. Material/Size: Bark. Art – various The Private Collection is in Prague.

Aboriginal Australian Art Style: #3 Leaves of Bush Medicine

Artist Gloria Petyarre made the style known as “Bush Medicine Leaves” popular after her painting “Leaves” won the prestigious “Wynne Prize” for landscape at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1999. The painting was inspired by the native Kurrajong tree. Many other women from Utopia in Central Australia also wear this style as a tribute to the healing powers of the Kurrajong tree’s bush medicine leaves. Jeannie Petyarre and Abie Loy Kemarre are two other artists who have used this style.

Aboriginal Australian Art Style: #4 Rock Art

Archeological finds at the Madjedbebe site in the Northern Territory show that Aboriginal people have lived in Australia for at least 65,000 years. Ground ochre found at the site also shows that these early Indigenous people liked to make art. Also in Arnhem Land is the Narwala Gabarnmang rock shelter, which has the oldest rock paintings in Australia that have been dated by radiocarbon. They are 28,000 years old. The sacred space has vivid pictures of animals, fish, reptiles, and people woven together, as well as pictures from mythology and pictures of traditional rituals. The Bunjil Shelter in Victoria’s Grampians National Park and The Bradshaws in Western Australia’s Kimberley are two other ancient Aboriginal rock art sites.

Aboriginal Australian Art Style: #5 Field of Colors

Aboriginal artists and art galleries didn’t like Colour Fields at first, but Kudditji Kngwarreye, a well-known Aboriginal artist, used it. Like the works of American abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, this style uses abstract uses of color and shape to tell the stories of the Emu Ancestors and Emu Dreaming sites.

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