A Power Point by Kim Silbaugh

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A Power Point by Kim Silbaugh
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THE DREAMING Aboriginal art dates as far back as
50,000 years ago. The earliest works are drawings
and carvings on rocks. In some area of Australia,
Aborigine artists still make their own paints and
brushes. In the northern part of Australia, the
X-ray painting is still being created today. Tree
bark is used in place of canvas. In the western
desert areas, where Papunya dot paintings are
made, 20th century art materials are being used
to produce millennia old imagery. In both cases,
the imagery relates to Dreaming. The Dreaming is
the time of creation whose stories explain how
the landscape was made by super beings. Along
with the Dreaming stories, the rights to paint
specific images from them, are past down from
generation to generation. These works of art
are of interest for what they tell us about
Aborigine culture as well as their appeal to
contemporary art.
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Autumn Rhythm Jackson Pollack
Jackson Pollack was a 20th Century American
artist who painted in the style of Abstract
Expressionist.
She-wolf Jackson Pollack
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Ancient Aboriginal Art
Jackson Pollack
While both of these pain tings have a similar
feel, they are separated by thousands of years,
thousands of miles, and 2 very different cultures.
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Traditional Art Materials
Minerals are ground into powdered
pigment Pigments are applied with brushes made
from human hair or with sticks that have been
flattened and frayed at the ends.
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Papunya dot paintings are currently made with
20th century materials of acrylic paint on canvas.
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Papunya
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Muliera Two by Bob Tjungurrayi
The painting depicts ceremonial body paint. Men
paint curving lines from their ankles to their
shoulders and adorn themselves with a plant fiber
called Wamulu. The fiber has colors added and is
represented by the background dots.
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Women Collecting Bush Plums by Irene Naparula
The painting shows women picking bush plums. Each
have their own digging stick and coolamon (wooden
bowl) to collect food. The dot paintings show the
landscape from an aerial view.
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Aerial View of central Australia near Ayers Rock
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This dot painting show the rhythm of a city as
viewed from above
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Can you see the rhythm in this aerial view. Try
to do a sketch showing the major lines and
intersections. What colors would you use to
create a dot painting form this?
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The Forbidden City from above Beijing, China
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The Pyramids Egypt
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Central Park New York
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Aerial view of a neighborhood
Can you use this picture to make a dot
painting? See some examples on the next slide.
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Close your eyes and create an aerial view of your
neighborhood. Take this sketch and make it into
your very personal dot painting.
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X-Ray Paintings
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The "X-ray" tradition in Aboriginal art is
thought to have developed around 2000 B.C. and
continues to the present day. As its name
implies, the X-ray style depicts animals or human
figures in which the internal organs and bone
structures are clearly visible. X-ray art
includes sacred images of ancestral supernatural
beings as well as secular works depicting fish
and animals that were important food sources. In
many instances, the paintings show fish and game
species from the local area. Through the creation
of X-ray art, Aboriginal painters express their
ongoing relationships with the natural and
supernatural worlds.
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To create an X-ray image, the artist begins by
painting a silhouette of the figure, often in
white, and then adding the internal details in
red or yellow. For red, yellow, and white paints,
the artist uses natural ocher pigments mined from
mineral deposits, while black is derived from
charcoal. Early X-ray images depict the backbone,
ribs, and internal organs of humans and animals.
Later examples also include features such as
muscle masses, body fat, optic nerves, and breast
milk in women. Some works created after European
contact even show rifles with bullets visible
inside them.
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Contemporary X-Ray drawing
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Go to this web site and try your hand at becoming
an X-Ray painter.
http//www.enchantedlearning.com/artists/xraystyle
/
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Norval Morrisseau was born in the early 1930s on
the Sandy Point Lake Reserve north of Thunder Bay
in Ontario Canada. He was raised by his
Grandparents and through them learned traditional
Ojibwa customs, values and beliefs. It was in his
youth that he received - from his Grandfather -
his "mission" to share through art, all of those
things he was taught to respect about Ojibwa
culture. During the 1950's, Morrisseau was
hospitalized with Tuberculosis. While in
hospital, he began painting and drawing his
visions on birch bark and brown paper bags ... he
painted visions which were uniquely his own.
Later, in the 1960's he traveled widely to bush
communities in Canada and visited some northern
Minnesota reservations where he met with many who
today are considered knowledgeable elders, both
to learn from them and to teach. He taught by
painting, as well as writing. A medicine man or
shaman, Morrisseau developed a style which has
since evolved and been used by many Native
artists. The style is called the Eastern Woodland
Style and can be seen in the works of Daphne
Odjig, Carl Ray and Blake Debassige.His style
often shows both the exterior and interior of an
animal, similar to the X-Ray paintings of the
Aboriginal Art of Australia.
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Go to the following web site by clicking on this
link to explore the various animals native to
Australia. X-Ray paintings usually use these
animals as their subject matter. Now go to the
second link. This shows animals native to
Wyoming. Select one animal and complete an X-Ray
drawing of this Wyoming animal. Complete your
painting by creating a decorative background
typical of Australian paintings. Australian
animals http//www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/
Australia.shtml Wyoming animals
http//wyoming.gov/kids/wildlife.asp
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Aboriginal dancers decorate not only bark but
also their bodies in the X-Ray and dot painting
style.
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