Aboriginal Art

From Australia

   

Aboriginal people are indigenous (the first) Australians. They tell stories in words and pictures about how the world began. They call this Dreamtime.

Can you point Australia on the map?

ABORIGINAL ART TECNICHE

They used their fingers or sticks for painting.

Aboriginal Art is made of symbols and means of communication. To tell a story.

These symbols showed things that were around them land, patterns and animals.

These are the colours of the desert. Aboriginal artists made their paints from natural materials.

Aboriginal paintings also use lots of dots.

I can make aboriginal art by using symbols to tell a story.

I can carve an aboriginal design into foam.

I can make an aboriginal art dot painting.

ABORIGINAL COLOURS

• Black represents the night and the aboriginal people.

• Yellow represents the sun, it is the sacred colour.

• Red is the colour of the land and the blood.

• White is the spirit colour

 Aboriginal art uses 'Earth Colours'.

 

 

LET’S WATCH A VIDEO

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Sou45vT1s

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/250583166737929045/

Let’s have a look!

• https://www.google.com/search?hl=es&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=641&q=world+map&oq=world+&gs_l=img.1.1.0l10.13709.15195.0.18095.6.6.0.0.0.0.303.906.2j2j1j1.6.0....0...1ac.1.32.img..1.5.602.T_w97cRwPTo#hl=es&q=aboriginals+paintings&tbm=isch&i

Can you answer the following questions?

1.Where did the aboriginal people live?2. Where does the aboriginal art come from? From which

continent?5. What technique did they use for their paintings?6. Can you name same of the aboriginal symbols?7. What are the main colours of aboriginal art?8. Where did they get the materials for their paintings?A) from the sea. B) from the nature C) from the desert

ABORIGINAL INSTRUMENTS• Aboriginal traditional music

consists of rhythmic singing supported by few instruments.

• Traditional Aboriginal instruments are almost always percussive involve beating , for example: handclaps, body slapping or hitting of clapsticks. The most important non-percussive instrument is the didgeridoo.

Let’s create a dot painting.

Watch the following video.Pay attention to the technique:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFgwtBYbUDc

• Now use your imagination and create your own aboriginal painting.

• Choose one of the aboriginal symbols that you like best.

• Use your pencil for drawing it and colour with dots.

“DREAMTIME”You are going to watch a video about an aboriginal story:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDJrnldb08o

LET’S PAINT:

• Draw with the pencil a picture inspired by the dreamtime.

• Use construction paper.

• Paint the picture, using the dot’s technique.

A COLOURFUL TAPESTRY

Activity group

• In this activity you are going to work in a group to design a tapestry.

• Draw a draft on a piece of paper .

• Later copy the draft on the fabric.

• Finally colour it with dots.

Materials• Pencils, piece of papers, a

fabric, sticks and paints.

The boomerang

• the Australian Aborigines are one of the few cultures in history that never have used a bow and arrow, they depended on the boomerang for hunting .

Let’s make a rain stick

How to make a rain stick:

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/music/rainstick/

What is a rain stick?

• It is a tool that was used in some Native cultures to bring rain during dry periods.

• It was made from cactus and has today been adopted as popular musical instrument around the world.