Aboriginal Art

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Aboriginal Art
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Dreamtime Stories

• The Dreamtime for Aboriginal people is the time
  which the earth received its present form and in
  which the patterns and cycles of life begun.
  Sometimes creating their surroundings and
  sometimes changing into animals or people, the
  Dreamtime reflected the events and characters of
  daily life in the Australian desert. ?he
  expression 'Dreamtime' is often used to refer to
  the 'time before time', or 'the time of the
  creation of all things, while 'Dreaming' is often
  used to refer to an individual's or group's
  beliefs.

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• Australia Aborigines created stories to teach
  each other about the Dreamtime, these stories
  taught about life, including birth, love, food
  gathering, hunting, warfare, marriage and death
  but also about the Creation.?he Aboriginal
  traditional way to educate about the Aboriginal
  History, Culture and Laws was storytelling, using
  a combination of Arts form such as painting,
  singing, music and dancing to illustrate the
  ancient "Dreamtime Stories". Traditionally,
  people telling a story would use the haunting
  sound of the didgeridoo with song and dances, but
  also symbolic drawing were created. These designs
  were traditionally used as body paint decorations
  for corroborees and as sand paintings for
  ceremonial purposes. ?ecause the "Stories of the
  Dreaming" have been handed down through the
  generations, they are not owned by individuals.
  They belong to a group, the storytellers is
  choose by the Elders, and have the obligation to
  pass the stories along, ensuring that young
  people build and retain a sense of who they are.

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Dot painting are the traditional visual art form
of the Aborigines in Western Australia Central
Desert. The canvas is covered in small dots of
paint which create patterns and symbols. These
symbols can easily be recognize by those familiar
with the Dreamtime Story illustrated.?right
colors are now more common with the use of
acrylic paint, but traditional dot painters used
natural pigments such as ochre, crashed seeds.
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