Indigenous Communities Of Australia Are Still Now Holding Their Culture

By Author: Helen Garner
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From very past time, even before the formation of specific language for expressing something to other, human beings take the help of art for communication. Those arts we can find in the wall of many caves where earlier human beings live. Various expressions, such as the art of hunting they used to follow in the past time, some cultural process, stories and other various things they used to express through their art skills.


Ancient art and its type


The form of art is not just a singular type, as various community distributed across the various parts of the world used various methods to express ancient stories and culture. Drawing and painting with soil or other subs stance, engraved drawings in the wall of the cave (Petroglyphs) were very common processes found in many area of this world. Some ancient community used colored soil for painting. Sculpturing you can also find but those were not very old comparing to the Petroglyphs.


If you study these arts deeply, you can find that different ancient communities used various geometrical patterns in their art to express ...
... various things and ancient stories. Circles, rectangles, lines triangles are very common than other geometrical shapes. The sun symbol used to paint using a circle and many little triangles in its outer side one after another depicting its rays, while the moon was depicted using a half circle. They used various tools, especially sharpened stone pieces or any hardened materials for making Petroglyphs. Sometime they used their own fingers and hands or handprints for depicting any story.


Popular Traditional Australian native art


Modern human beings invented various latest techniques of drawing and paintings. Some tribal or indigenous communities are still now holding their culture, as many traditional factors are related with this thing. Aboriginal art is one form of ancient art, now become popular tremendously across the world, and belongs to indigenous community of Australia. This form of art is made by various tools and techniques. All of these are very showy as a lot colors is used to make the whole picture. Nowadays, acrylic paints or ochre is used to make a whole picture on the paper or on the piece of cloth or on the other flat surface. Dot prints are very common but very traditional, whereas, various other patterns are also used to make any Aboriginal Paintings. These types of paintings are very popular for its outstanding visual effect. The main feature of this type of art is, ranges of colors are used and perfectly matched to express an ancient Australian story. Kangaroos, lizard, human figures, various geometrical shapes are very common that you can find in any paintings. Among various geometrical shapes, circles are more commons.


Reach indigenous artist through web


In home decoration, many people want to use paintings directly from the top Aboriginal Artists. Various groups of indigenous people are working continuously to make outstanding aboriginal paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Over the net, you can reach the groups of artists who can make true Aboriginal arts and buy paintings directly from them. You can consult with these expert artists if you want any particular type of art on the specified material as these groups many time offer such facilities to the painting lovers.


Bio: Helen Garner is an art lover directly spoke with Australian indigenous people who make outstanding Aboriginal Paintings while researching on them. He can tell you important matters about this kind of paintings.