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Unit 3

About this Unit:

• We will be looking at Aboriginal Art• We will be creating our own artworks in the style

of aboriginal art• We will learn about the artist Andy Goldsworthy• We will make our own artwork out of natural

materials• We will be looking at artists who have made

environmental artworks• We will make a sculpture about the environment

Australian Aboriginal Art

Who are the Aborigines?•Aborigine means “native”•Original people of Australia•Traveled in canoes from SE Asia •Lived there at least 40,000 years as the only people•Developed unique beliefs about creation•Survived as hunters and observers •Many died from disease or starved when their land was taken from them by the Europeans in the 1770s

What is Aboriginal Art?•Last traditional art form to be appreciated •To understand Aboriginal Art we first need to learn about Dreamtime•Dreamtime refers to their beliefs of how the land and its people were created•Believed supernatural beings with magical powers created the land’s features, animals and plants during dreamtime•Art is a way to stay in touch with their ancestry and be a part of the natural world

•Passed down through generations by word of mouth

•Artworks depict deep meaning told through dreamtime stories•Basis of value and belief system, affects their interaction with the land and animals•Land is sacred because it contains their heritage, history, and powerful ancestors or spirits

Dreamtime Stories

In Your sketchbooks :

Make a unit title page in full colour, you can use aboriginal art that you see in the PPT and online to help inspire your decoration.

In your own words, Explain what Aborigine means, Who Aborigines are, and explain what Dreamtime is. Use pictures that you find online to help you illustrate this. Complete all this in your own words.

In Aboriginal culture everyone is an artist because everyone participates in activities such as dancing, singing, body decoration, sand drawing and weaving baskets.

•Unique subject matter and style•Known for their rock paintings, bark paintings, sand (or dot paintings), and body decoration•Brushes made from bark, plant fibers, twigs, hair or feathers•Also used fingers or sticks to paint •Used natural ochers (minerals) or clay to make red, yellow, and white paint•Black was made from charcoal

How did Aboriginals create art?

Aboriginal Rock Art•Longest continuously practiced artistic tradition in the world. •Ubirr, located in North Australia, has very impressive rock paintings.

"One old man in Arnhem Land remembered being carried as a child on his father's shoulders as his father climbed up a log leaning against a rock wall. His father then sprayed his hand with red ochre against the rock, leaving a stencil he could still recognize many years later. The main function of the stencils was to record people's presence and association with a site."

In your sketchbooks :

Explain some of the ways Aborigines created artwork

Write about ways in which Aboriginal people use art to tell stories.

What do you think the relationship that Aboriginal people have with their environment is like?

Why do you think this?

Find out : What is an X-Ray Painting?Find some examples of X-Ray Painting and stick in your sketchbooks.

   

 

How are these two paintings similar? How are they different?

•Traditional dot paintings were made in sand

•Contemporary dot paintings are on canvas with acrylic paint

•Depict a story using Aboriginal symbols

•When you understand the symbols it gives a whole new meaning to a dot painting

Dot Painting

•Aboriginals used symbols to represent natural surroundings.•They are shown as tracks left in the ground and look like they are seen from a plane. •Represent recent tracks left by animals or tracks made in the past by ancestors.

Thunder & Lightening

Kangaroo tracks & tail

Goanna (lizard) dragging tail, footprints on side

Emu

Frogs (black)Water holes (blue)

Footprints

Snakes Men Hunting Women’s Ceremony

• In your Sketchbooks create one page of simple symbols that represent animals, plants and natural events (rain, monsoon, The night sky, etc etc)

• You should make at least 10 symbols, with a key next to them

• Think about things that have a personal meaning to you.

• Think about things that are unique to Thailand.

In Your sketchbooks:

• Design a full colour dot painting that uses the symbols you invented on the previous page.

• You must use similar colours to the examples of aboriginal art that you have seen in this PPT and online.

• Paint a light background colour on your page first so that you arent working on a white background.