Y r 7 A b o r i g i n a l A r t

H o m e w o r k

Project Objective: You have 10 homework tasks (each for 25 minute blocks) to complete over the next 2 weeks that will guide you towards creating a piece of artwork in the style of Aboriginal Art. These homework tasks need to be handed into your teacher in the art lesson that follows the end of the project – week of the 22nd May.

Find some examples @ www.fulstonks3artdesign.weebly.com

Please remember that Art staff are available to help after school throughout this project and Homework club is available to all students. The project work needs to be completed on paper (available from your Art teachers) and when submitted held together with a paperclip.

We will post notifications for Year 7 on Show My Homework to act as reminders for students to help you organise your time.

Part 1+2: Create a front cover for this project.

Your front cover needs to include the word ‘Aboriginal Art’ you need to consider size and style of the lettering. You need to consider how to add colour and decoration around the word. You could create a border pattern. You should draw or find images of ‘Aboriginal art’ to place around the word.

Part 3: Find two Aboriginal pictures from the internet or use the ones below.

Write down any information about the artwork. E.g. artist’s name, type of animal or any story to go with the artwork.

This painting by Denis Nelson Jupurrula is a good example of an Aboriginal painting rich in

Aboriginal symbols. This painting is titled Kangaroo, Rain, Flying Ant, Possum Dreaming.

To find out more about this painting go to http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-

culture/aboriginal-symbols-glossary/aboriginal-symbols-and-their-meanings/

EXAMPLE

Learning Objective – Aboriginal Art was introduced to the students at the start of the art project in class. The aim of the HW is to extend the students understanding of Aboriginal Art and then work to practice drawing skills and techniques taught.

By: David Wroth, Japingka Gallery, 2015

A good website to find out about symbols is https://japingkaaboriginalart.com/articles/aboriginal-art-symbols/

Part 4: Copy the questions and write down the answers.

I want you to use whole sentences with correct spelling and grammar.

What is Aboriginal Art based on?

What is the ‘Dreamtime’?

Traditionally how did Aboriginal artists create their work?

What did Geoffrey Barden encourage the Aboriginal men to do 40 years ago?

How old is Aboriginal art thought to be?

Originally, why did Aboriginal painters use dots?

Information on Aboriginal Art that could help you answer the questions. Aboriginal art is based on important ancient stories: even contemporary Aboriginal art, is based on stories (Jukurrpa) and symbols centred on 'the Dreamtime' – the period in which Indigenous people believe the world was created. The Dreamtime stories are up to and possibly even exceeding 50,000 years old, and have been handed down through the generations virtually unchanged for all those years. Aboriginal art also stands as a written language: Aboriginal art is a major part of the unwritten 'encyclopedia' of being an Aboriginal person and as such it may have many layers of meaning. Australian Aboriginal people have no written language of their own, and so the important stories central to the people's culture are based on the traditional icons (symbols) and information in the artwork, which go hand in hand with recounted

stories, dance or song, helping to pass on vital information and preserve their culture. Aboriginal art on canvas and board only began 40 years ago: Traditionally, the paintings we now see on canvas, were scratched or drawn on rock walls, used in body paint or on ceremonial articles and importantly, drawn in sand or dirt accompanied by the song or story. In 1971, Geoffrey Bardon a school teacher working with Aboriginal children in Papunya, noticed the Aboriginal men, while telling stories to others, were drawing symbols in the sand. He encouraged them to put these stories down on board and canvas, and there began the famous Aboriginal art movement. It was a major leap for indigenous people to begin painting their stories on western rectangular shaped surfaces – a foreign concept in their world. Since then, Australian Aboriginal Art has been tagged the most exciting contemporary art form of the 20th Century.

1. Dots were used to hide secret information: Dot painting in the main, began when the Aboriginal people became concerned that white man would be able to see and understand their sacred and private knowledge. The dots (sometimes called 'over-dotting') were used to obscure the secret iconography (symbols) underneath.

Part 5: Aboriginal Word Art

Click on the link to create a word cloud. https://tagul.com

Type words that you can think of that relate to Aboriginal Art.

1. Choose the shape 2. Choose the font type 3. Click visualise 4. save as Sq (Standard quality)

Think about the artists/ art style that you have studies and techniques you have learnt.

This will come in handy when revising for the KS3 examination in art in May.

You can submit your word-cloud by email or printing it out yourself.

IF you can't access the tagul site then complete your word cloud by hand.

Copy Link

https://tagul.com

Part 6+7: Create your own boomerang Aboriginal design

Draw the basic boomerang shape, using Aboriginal patterns and symbols create an interesting design in colour. Here are some ideas.

Part 8: Create your own Aboriginal Art word search using the word search generator linked below.

The website

tells you, step by

step on how to create your word search.

Think of 10-15 key words linked to Aboriginal Art to put into your word search.

Print off the word search or email me to bring in, so you can swap and share with other word

searches in the class to complete in lesson.

(Copt the LINK)

https://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your...

Part 9+10: Create an Aboriginal using the animal that you have drawn in lesson as the main character in your story. You could create a ‘cartoon strip’ style piece to incorporate drawing into your work. Minimum 100 words. Scenario: You are walking through the Australian outback, it is very warm and the air is dry. It feels like you have been walk for days and you see a village up ahead, though when you get closer you find out it’s an indigenous Aboriginal tribe….

- Describe what you can see and hear. - What type of scenery can you see? - What animals do you notice?

- How do the tribe respond to you?