Dreamtime 3 Australian Aboriginal Art

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Dreamtime
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Australian Aboriginal Art
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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.
The 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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The Australian Parliament House forecourt
features a magnificent piece of Indigenous
artwork created from mosaic tiles. The Forecourt
Mosaic is based on a Central Desert dot-style
painting by Michael Nelson Tjakamarra, a leading
Aboriginal artist from the Papunya community of
the Northern Territory. The mosaic is made up of
approximately 90,000 hand-guillotined granite
pieces in seven different colors and represents a
Possum and Wallaby Dreaming
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Dot painting are the traditional visual art form
of the Aborigines in Western Australia Central
Desert
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The canvas is covered in small dots of paint
which create patterns and symbols
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The dreamtime symbols can easily be recognized by
those familiar with the Dreamtime Story
illustrated
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Bright 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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What is certain is that Ancestor Spirits came
to Earth in human and other forms and the land,
the plants and animals were given their form as
we know them today
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These Spirits also established relationships
between groups and individuals, (whether people
or animals) and where they traveled across the
land, or came to a halt,
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they created rivers, hills, etc., and there are
often stories attached to these places
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Once their work was done, the Ancestor Spirits
changed again into animals or stars or hills or
other objects
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For Indigenous Australians, the past is still
alive and vital today and will remain so into
the future
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The Ancestor Spirits and their powers have not
gone, they are present in the forms into which
they changed at the end of the Dreamtime or
reaming, as the stories tell
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The stories have been handed down through the
ages and are an integral part of an Indigenous
person's Dreaming
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Each tribe has its individual dreamtime although
some of the legends overlap. Most Dreamtime
originates with the Giant Dog or the Giant Snake,
and each is unique and colorful in its
explanation
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Legends of the Dreamtime are handed down by
word of mouth and by totem from generation to
generation
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It involves secret rituals and rites, and some
classified as Men's Business and some as
Women's Business
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Colorful, symbolic and enthusiastic dancing and
corroborees are used to pass on the stories of
the creation
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The National Gallery of Australia
The Aboriginal Memorial of 200 painted tree
trunks commemorating all the indigenous people
who had died between 1788 and 1988 defending
their land against invaders. Each tree trunk is a
dupun or log coffin, which is used to mark the
safe tradition of the soul of the deceased from
this world to the next
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Artists from Ramingining painted it to mark the
Australian Bicentenary and it was accepted for
display by the Biennale of Sydney in 1988
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