1. Aboriginal Art and Music from AUSTRALIA
Art Standards:
Identify color, line, shape, and texture in artworks that convey what they see, know, and feel
Discuss and describe the common themes or subject matter of selected artworks from different cultures
Art Element/Principal: Repetition
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Australia is the only country in the world that covers an entire continent. It is one of the largest countries on Earth. More than one-third of Australia is desert. It has a long history.
Aboriginal people of Australia
Original people of Australia
Lived there for more than 40,000 years
They were hunters and observers
They have a tribal culture of storytelling and art
The term Aborigines was given to the original people of Australia by the British, but they prefer to be called by their individual clan names.
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In Aboriginal culture everyone is an artist because everyone participates in activities such as dancing, singing, body decoration, drawing and weaving baskets.
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The Music of the Aboriginal People
The many animals and beauty of nature helped inspire music and art:
While playing Didgeridoo, traditionally Aborigines mimic the sounds of their surroundings and animals they hear. These sounds can be mixed with droning to create rhythms, which is how the Didgeridoo is used as a rhythm wind instrument.
The Didgeridoo:
A WIND Instrument
Listen to modern Didgeridoo Music:
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5. Colors, Shapes, Lines The Art of the Aboriginal People
What colors do you see?
What shapes and lines do you see?
What kinds of objects do you see?
Colors, Shapes, Lines
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Aboriginal Art is one of the oldest art forms practiced today.
Drawings that are thousands of years old can still be found on ancient rocks.
An Australian Aboriginal rock painting depicts a lizardlike animal, near Hawker, South Australia.
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Thousands of years ago, Aboriginals would create their works using only the natural materials left around them, such as bark, clay, logs, trees, burnt sticks, rocks, etc.... 
The patterns and symbols were created used only the colors seen in nature.
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Traditional Dot (Sand) Painting
Traditional dot paintings were made in sand.
Today dot paintings are on canvas with paint
THEY TELL a story using Aboriginal symbols and designs.
What do you think the concentric circles represent?
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Dots and Patterns
Do you see?
Curved lines
Straight Lines
Angles
Repeated dots
The backgrounds of these art works were never blank. There is always a continuous use of dotting, patterns, lines
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Most traditional aboriginal dot paintings represent a story about hunting or food gathering. Therefore, animals are frequently part of the painting. What ANIMALS do you see?
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Over in Australia
Many Amazing Animals
Koala
Wombat
Kangaroo
Red the book by Marianne Berkes to introduce the animals of Australia.
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Brolga
Dugong
Koala
Bandicoot
Platypus
Wombat
Kookaburra
Tree frog
Snake neck turtle
Great White Shark
Wallero
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Create a DOT painting
Select an Animal shape to create a dot painting.
2. Decide on 3 colors and the pattern you want to use.
3. Dip a Q-Tip lightly into your paint. Hold the end straight down onto the paper and make dots by dabbing the tip onto the paper.
4. Follow the outline of the animal. Fill in the animal with dots!
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