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	Australian Aboriginal art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australian 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.
		Art was one of the key rituals of Aboriginal culture and was was used to mark territory, record history, and tell stories.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_art (1717 words)

	Art of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The art of Australia includes one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world - that is, those of the Indigenous Australians, Australian Aboriginal art in particular began to receive international recognition in the late 20th century.
		The beginnings of Australian art are often popularly associated with the Heidelberg School in the 1880s.
		A number of Australian artists have recently been official war artists for the Australian War Memorial such as Wendy Sharpe and Rick Amor for the East Timor peacekeeping mission; George Gittoes in Somalia; Peter Churcher (son of NGA director Betty Churcher)in the War on Terrorism, and Lewis Miller in the 2003 Iraq War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Art_of_Australia (1453 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Art
		The restrictions and pressure which arose, also due for example to the forceful prevention of leaving the reservation except with the permission of the whites, as well as the realisation by the elders of the communities that their culture was suffering untold damage, made it essential to seek a way out.
		The art movement spread rapidly from settlement to settlement, from reservation to reservation, along the old lines of family ties - which are quite different and more wide-ranging than purely blood-relations - and along the old paths of religious celebrations.
		The art of the Australian Aboriginal artists has nothing to do with those themes, even though the basic techniques of Desert-Art (the dots, lines, monochrome areas, or multi-layering) are also found in modern western art and even though the works therefore often remind one of contemporary abstract (western) art.
	www.aboriginal-art.de /art_eng/malerei.htm (1130 words)

	Books About Australian Aboriginal Art
		Australia's Aborigines, who have lived on that continent for at least 40,000 years, were until recently considered extremely "primitive." Today, anthropologists recognize their complex social patterns and rich cosmology, their centuries-old contacts with Melanesians and Indonesians, their pioneering of human cremation, rock art, tools and grindstones.
		The Dreamtime of the Aborigines' bark paintings, acrylics, ceremonial objects and sculptures is both the sacred, life-giving dimension of the present and the realm in which ancestral spirits roam the landscape.
		Because Aboriginal myth and views about land are tied directly to the art, the author includes a discussion of these beliefs and their relationship to the paintings.
	www.cultureplanet.com /art/aborig.htm (792 words)

	Aboriginal Rock Art
		Aboriginal art really involves story telling, myths, rituals, sorcery, and magic, where the artist describes their Dreaming, the stories of creation, their beliefs, and their spirituality.
		Aboriginal rock art is more than 40,000 years old, a time span five times greater than the age of the Egyptian pyramids.
		In the Kimberley, Aborigines claim that the oldest art, the Bradshaw paintings, were made by the birds that pecked the rocks until their beaks bled and painted the images with their tail feathers.
	www.lonker.net /art_aboriginal_1.htm (750 words)

	Spirit Country: Australian Aboriginal Art
		Art lovers are familiar with the Paleolithic cave paintings of animals and hunters in Lascaux France, which are thought to have been created ten to fifteen thousand years ago.
		Since the early 20th century, there has been a renaissance of the traditional art of the Aboriginal people, which, belatedly, is achieving recognition in the west for its richness and diversity.
		The resemblance to modern art is partially responsible for an increased appreciation of Aboriginal art in the West in recent years.
	www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch/SpiritCountry.htm (721 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Aboriginal art under fraud threat
		Australian aboriginal art is under threat after a series of high profile fraud scandals.
		Aboriginal art is gaining popularity - the industry is worth $143 (£83m) annually, growing 10% a year.
		The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission are concerned that the artists themselves are not reaping the rewards of their work.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/3246474.stm (244 words)

	Aboriginal Art Traditional Symbols - Aboriginal Art Online
		The base or floor of any Aboriginal design or painting is the preparation of the earth, or the ancestor being's involvement with the earth.
		Amongst the artists of the Central and Western Desert art movement of the last 30 years, Johnny Warangkula was the first to use dotting as the background for his paintings.
		As the Papunya painting movement developed in the 1970s, dotting was increasingly used to obscure meanings and to hide some of the symbolism that was not meant to be exposed to the un-initiated.
	www.aboriginalartonline.com /culture/symbols.php (545 words)

	Papunya Tula--the birthplace of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art
		The Papunya Tula art movement—with its ancestral myths or Dreaming stories and unique imagery—was born in the early 1970s in the oppressive, desolate and poverty-stricken conditions of a government settlement 250 miles west of Alice Springs, in central Australia.
		According to the government, Aborigines were not ready to live as “white Australians” and had to be re-educated to hasten their “advancement”.
		When he arrived at the settlement in 1971 he found “a community of people in appalling distress, oppressed by a sense of exile from their homelands and committed to remain where they were by direction of the Commonwealth government.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/aug2001/tula-a24.shtml (2685 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Art - Dot painting symbols and icon meaning
		Contemporary Aboriginal Art is a direct continuation of the creative and symbolic artistic tradition developed over millennia.
		The art designs vary greatly in style from one area to another, from the art of Far North Queensland with it’s ‘x-ray’ style or ‘crosshatching’ seen on bark paintings, to the ‘dot’ or ‘sand’ paintings of the deserts of Central Australia.
		Australian Aboriginal culture encompasses a belief in the ‘creation’ or ‘dreaming’ (Jukurrpa) when ancestors roamed the countryside forming rivers, rock formations, waterholes and hills.The ‘stories’ of these times are still celebrated today, using sacred objects, song and dance.
	www.cooinda-gallery.com.au /aboriginal_art.asp (414 words)

	OneWorld Magazine - Australian Aboriginal Art
		At times of major glaciation, the Australian land mass could be reachedfrom central Asia by multiple 'one day' sea passages: a one day passagebeing 50 miles on a large raft, the probable vessel of the time.
		More probable is that the current Aboriginal population is the result of several "waters of migration", and that groups may have come and, for whatever reason, become extinct during the process of population evolution.
		The Australian government slowly came to recognize Aboriginal artistic expression as a national resource, and for this as well as humanitarian reasons, it began to support the art movement by providing materials, exposure to new techniques, and establishing authorized contact points for outback dwelling groups.
	www.oneworldmagazine.org /gallery/abo/intro.html (825 words)

	Aboriginal Art Gallery Melbourne, Aboriginal Artists Gallery Melbourne Australia
		Art of Australia aims to directly offer clients a diverse range of quality Australian art at affordable prices - for your pleasure or future wealth creation.
		Art of Australia Collection by Lang Duncan offers works by many traditional and contemporary Aboriginal artists in a relaxed and friendly environment.
		After travelling extensively through the Australian outback Graham decided to bring the beauty, the rich stories and the stunning impact of Aboriginal art to the public, both in Australia and internationally.
	www.artofaustralia.net.au (194 words)

	Contemporary Aboriginal Art
		Traditionally, aboriginal art was to be used only by those who had the knowledge and right to do so.
		The essential character of the art is spiritual and symbolic, maps of mythical relationships between different features of the landscape inspired by the symbols of the Dreaming.
		In 1971-72, Papunya west of Alice Spring became the birthplace of a new Aboriginal art movement under the tutelage of Geoffrey Bardon (1940-2003), who encouraged senior men (Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra) to paint the story of the honey ant using western art materials.
	www.lonker.net /art_aboriginal_2.htm (453 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Art
		Australian art from the various tribes of Australia has been around for centuries.
		Not all natives can do the art but those that have been taught by their forefathers are adept.
		If you have never been to Australia (Downunder) as it is called, or have been there, having a piece of the art will bring memories of the continent, a continent relatively unspoiled, preserve the images of these people and bring enjoyment into your life for the simplicity of the art.
	www.karinya.com /auart.htm (190 words)

	Aboriginal Art of Australia - Aboriginality
		All of the regional centers that are producing art of high quality in various mediums have in common that rare imaginative capacity to make formal and even moral sense out of the apparent randomness of the world.
		Aboriginal peoples have been doing this for tens of thousands of years, and it is a privilege to be in the presence of such work and to share it with others.
		These works of art are both communal acts of resistance and collective acts of affirmation.
	www.aboriginality.com (252 words)

	Central Art \| Aboriginal Art Specialists
		There is also a selection of Aboriginal art individually priced at $200 and under which have an important educational factor associated with them and are distrubuted by Central Art.
		Being exposed to what was then identified as traditional Aboriginal art, I became interested in the mysticism of the work and developed an appreciation and understanding of the achievement and creativity of the artists.
		Aboriginal people create so differently to their European counter-parts in that their work is not sketched or based on any groundwork, but created instinctively while still exhibiting the spirituality of the artists and their country.
	www.aboriginalartstore.com.au (368 words)

	Investing in Australian Aboriginal Art
		One of the hottest areas of the contemporary art scene in Australia today is Australian Aboriginal art, which is becoming an increasingly attractive option for many investors.
		It is critical that investors are well informed before entering the Aboriginal art market, however, not only to ensure that investments are made in quality work by quality artists, but also to guarantee the provenance and authenticity of the work.
		Other factors particular to the Australian Aboriginal art market include the artist's age and seniority as a tribal elder, and their role or position in the historical development of Aboriginal art.
	www.articledashboard.com /Article/Investing-in-Australian-Aboriginal-Art/53416 (789 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Art Discourse(s)
		Aborigine as Sign: Aboriginal peoples and cultures are increasingly figured into Australian discourse of a national identity as ‘the cultural and spiritual heart’ of Australia.
		Aboriginal marketing of paintings as traditional and authentic says more about conditions of production than it does about the object itself.
		For Aboriginal people they affirm different privileges, histories, and identities that affirm their self-determination and distinctness within and outside local cultures.
	web.uvic.ca /~awalsh/SECT6_LECT2.htm (735 words)

	Corroboree Exports - Australian aboriginal art - online gallery
		This art was traditionally used in ceremonial performance, conjoined with song and dance, to reenact creation stories known as Dreamings.
		The act of ceremonial performance was meant to keep the creative power of first events manifest in the world: to keep the rains falling, the kangaroo increasing in number, and the yam vines flowering in the shade of the Mulga trees.
		Australian aboriginal artists paint their interpretations of 'dreamings' which have been passed down through the generations.
	www.corrobex.com /intro.htm (883 words)

	Aboriginal Art Online - Quality Aboriginal Art from Australia
		Contemporary Aboriginal art is a vital part of the world's oldest continuous cultural tradition.
		While there is a marvellous diversity in styles and imagery in contemporary Aboriginal art, artists continue to be strongly connected to their traditional country and their works focus on that country, its origins and ceremonies.
		This diversity is reflected in our Aboriginal Prints Gallery which includes a fine range of prints by leading artists from Arnhem Land, the Kimberley, Desert communities and the Tiwi Islands.
	www.aboriginalartonline.com (521 words)

	Aboriginal Art - Joanne Nasir, Northern Territory, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Australian aboriginal art is the oldest living indigenous art tradition in the world, with aboriginal paintings in rock shelters dating back 20,000 years.
		These aboriginal paintings depict the artists own interpretations of indigenous people, their issues and concerns, also her family’s Dreaming — which are the Stone, SPirit people, Moon and the Shooting Star Dreaming.
		When you select the aboriginal painting you are interested in, you will be taken to a detail page containing a description of that piece of aboriginal art (includes a link to a larger and more detailed image).
	www.aboriginalart-australia.com (329 words)

	The Brigham Galleries - Australian Aboriginal Art
		Perth is located on the south west tip of Western Australia (WA), the capital of a state that composes roughly one-third of the Australian continent.
		Marilyn introduced me to the indigenous arts in Perth and its environs while sharing her enthusiasm about the artists who are painting and working in WA today.
		Sotheby’s is finding a strong international interest in Aboriginal art in the auction market, and there is a growing international clamor to learn more about this art and these artists.
	www.thebrighamgalleries.com /Artists/Aboriginal/Aboriginal.htm (422 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Art - paintings by Minnie Pwerle and Gloria Petyarre. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Australian Aboriginal Art - paintings by Minnie Pwerle and Gloria Petyarre.
		Australian Aboriginal art featuring paintings by two of Australia's well known and respected Aboriginal artists - Minnie Pwerle and Gloria Petyarre.
		Aboriginal art by Minnie Pwerle and Gloria Petyarre is highly sought after for art collections and as investments.
	www.australianaboriginalart.com.au (347 words)

	Australian Aboriginal (tw5)(aus2Page1)
		Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council, Sydney, circa 1978.
		The text is written by Jennifer Isaacs and the line drawings are from E.J. Brandl's 'Australian Aboriginal Paintings in Western and Central Arnhem Land' 1973) (Keywords: X-ray paintings, spirit ancestors, Mimi spirits, Ngalyod, Benuk, Namarrkon).
		Allen, Louis A. Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigines.
	www.tribalworldbooks.com.au /aus2Page1.html (635 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This Aboriginal art is presented to you by Dreamtime Distribution in a unique partnership with King Studios Australia.
		Featuring William King (Jungala) and other Aboriginal artists, this Fine Art Collection is presented together with an insight into the philosophy and inspiration behind the art.
		Each piece of art portrays the colour and depth of nature in a way in which many have never experienced before.
	www.australian-aboriginal-arts.com /index.html (164 words)

	Aboriginal Fine Arts Gallery
		Australian Aboriginal art is the oldest living art tradition in the world, with paintings in rock shelters dating back 20,000 years.
		The art includes naturalistic paintings of human, plant and animal figures, as well as non-naturalistic, or "abstract" designs with concentric circles, "u" shapes, and lines.
		The naturalistic style, predominant in Arnhem Land in northern Australia, is often characterised by "X-ray" art, where the internal organs of animals are depicted.
	www.aaia.com.au (179 words)

	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Indigenous art of Australia is the part of oldest continuing living culture in the world and one of the two major art traditions operating within Australia today.
		The National Gallery of Australia collects art of the highest artistic merit and excellence created by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (hereafter referred to as Indigenous) to document and represent the ongoing and developing traditions of art which reflect the diversity of Indigenous experience over time and from every region of the continent.
		Among key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art works in the collection is The Aboriginal Memorial (1987–88), an installation of 200 painted hollow log coffins by the artists of Ramingining in Arnhem Land.
	www.nga.gov.au /Collection/ATSIArt.html (370 words)

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