In Aboriginal art, all the symbols and imagery have a meaning. In this case, the bark painting shows the symbolism of the animal, a tortoise, which is strongly related to the tribe that painted it.
“I used paper cuts to make stencils, and I used spray paints to spray the stencils, sort of reference to the traditional Chinese paper cutting art forms and modern-day Aboriginal ochre painting ...
Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Bark Paintings is the new exhibition at the Asia Society in Manhattan, on Park Avenue and 70th Street. It’s one of my favorite places, not only ...
Some years ago, I was hunkered down over a painting I'd just bought, popping the staples out of the stretcher bars in front of the gas station in Lajamanu, a dusty Aboriginal township smack in the ...
A collection of 19th Century paintings of Aboriginal Tasmanians has gone on display in Australia for the first time. English convict artist Thomas Bock painted the portraits of indigenous leaders ...
On his return home, he tried to find out more about these enigmatic aboriginal paintings and engravings. "I couldn't believe how little was known about them; we didn't even know how old they were ...
One of them was a “Dreaming” workshop where attendees were briefed about the significance of the symbols used in Aboriginal paintings. “Since Aboriginal people never had a proper script ...