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Interesting Aboriginal Dot Art Picture Of A Kangaroo, Looks Amazing - $75 (Chilliwack)
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One these is this beautiful Aboriginal dot art of a kangaroo. It measures 19.25" across x 14.5" tall
The artist's name is Tjinta Tjinta and is entitled Kangaroo Hunting
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Aboriginal dot painting is an internationally recognized unique style used by Australian Aboriginal artists. Emerging in the 1970s, it has become a medium for telling stories and enlivening culture.
Aboriginal peoples have used dots in art and other forms of expression for a very long time. Dots can be seen in symbolic patterns carved on artifacts and ancient rock galleries. They were used in sand paintings and in body painting for ceremonies.
The original use of the dot painting style may have been to create a ‘shimmer’ effect on a body design or in the decoration of an artifact. The dots might suggest an energy field or powerful aura around the design.
In more recent times, the distinctive dot painting style of Aboriginal artists emerged in the early 1970s from Papunya Tula artists. Dot painting styles are often seen in art works from the Central and Western Desert regions in Australia.
The simple dot style as well as cross hatching while beautifully aesthetic to the eye, has a far more hidden meaning and deeper purpose; to disguise the sacred meanings behind the stories in the paintings.
Before Indigenous Australian art was ever put onto canvas the Aboriginal people would smooth over the soil to draw sacred designs which belonged to that particular ceremony. Body paint was also applied which held meanings connected to sacred rituals. These designs were outlined with circles and encircled with dots.
Aboriginal artists abstracted their paintings to disguise the sacred designs so the real meanings could not be understood by Westerners.
Uninitiated people never got to see these sacred designs since the soil would be smoothed over again and painted bodies would be washed. This was not possible with paintings.
If this is of interest to you, much has been written on the subject that you can find on the internet
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