Today aboriginals are revered as a drunk and crazy culture. They are believed to sniff petrol and spend all there money on smokes. This is not always true. The truth has always been enclosed and a social view has been replaced. Aboriginal Culture actually has Music, Dance, Art and many other spiritual beliefs. The area of art, which I have chosen to talk about, has depth and purpose. Aboriginal art is usually traditional and has some meaning. Aboriginals have meaning in every painting they do. Every artwork has its own meaning and own story behind it. The so-called drunk and crazy Aboriginals are actually a culture of in depth with special themes like Dreamtime.
In Aboriginal culture, each of the different tribes use different methods and techniques. Between 5000 and 7000 Aboriginal people are estimated to be actively occupied regular making of art or craft. Many of these artists have led amazingly varied lives, often in difficult circumstances.
Aboriginal people have been producing visual art for many thousands of years. It takes many forms, ancient engravings and rock art, designs in sand or on the body, exquisite fibre craft and wooden sculptures, bark paintings and more recently an explosion of brilliant contemporary painting.
Most artworks in the distant past were made with materials that have not survived the passing of time. Rock art however has left rich and enduring evidence of human presence in Australia for at least 30 000 years. Aboriginal Australians believe they have been here since the Dreamtime.
Since the early 1970s, Aboriginal contemporary art has grown rapidly and with amazing diversity and vigour - to the extent that critic Robert Hughes has described it as 'the world's last great art movement'. The beginning of this growth can be traced to a school building in Papunya, a remote community in the Western Desert. The cultural pride expressed at Papunya has since spread widely in Aboriginal communities across Australia.
