aboriginal art
Native peoples' works
Aboriginal art refers to visual art created by Indigenous Australian peoples, encompassing ancient rock paintings, bark paintings, dot paintings, and contemporary works.
The tradition spans tens of thousands of years and often depicts Dreamtime stories, spiritual beliefs, and connections to land.
The gallery specializes in aboriginal art from the Western Desert.
The term applies broadly to indigenous art from any region, though Australian Aboriginal art dominates modern usage. (Capitalized Aboriginal Art typically refers specifically to Australian Indigenous traditions.)
- dot paintingArt using small circles
- DreamtimeAboriginal mythological creation era
- Rainbow SerpentAustralian Aboriginal creator being
- waterholesNatural drinking pools
- songlinesAboriginal sung navigation routes
story telling · cultural heritage · rock art · oral tradition · spirituality · hunting scenes · ceremonies · wood carving · animal totems · seasonal cycles · desert landscape · handprints · tribal identity · land rights · body painting · sand art · ancestral spirits · spirit world
- body paintface paint, body paint, body glitter, glitter paint, war paint
- ancient artsculpture, sculptures, pottery, mosaics, murals
- folk patternshex signs, kente, kente cloth, mudcloth, kilim
- primitivismprimitivism, tribal art, indigenous art, naive art, outsider art
- ancient communicationsmoke signal, hieroglyphs, carrier pigeon, pictographs, pictograms
- art museumspaintings, The Louvre, galleries, permanent collection, exhibitions
aboriginal artcolonial art
Art from ruled territories
European art · Western art · Victorian art · Renaissance art
aboriginal artcontemporary art
Creative works from today
modern art · avant-garde art · postmodern art · commercial art
aboriginal artclassical art
Ancient Greek and Roman works
neoclassical art · beaux-arts · fine art · Western canon · Renaissance art