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Welcome to the Aboriginal Art Project Joan Higgins Art grades 9-12
 * ==Didactic==

Must-Know Facts & Information
|| ==Coaching==

Skills for Mastery
|| ==Seminar==

Ideas and Values for understanding
|| • Dreamtime – a state of being that encompasses both the past and the future. Dreaming incorporates a time when Aboriginals believe that ancestral figures traveled the unformed earth. • Painting style - Each dream painting relates to the personal and tribal. Patterns are made with dots and curving lines • Art making- share with dreamtime and become one with the earth. •Importance of ancestors. Only the initiated members of the artist’s tribe can fully understand the meaning and symbolism of a dream painting •Importance of myth in subject matter
 * • Historical information on Australian Aborigines, the oldest continuing culture on the earth.

|| 1.Understanding and applying media, techniques and processes.

3. Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas.

4.Understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures. || Aborigine Dreamtime Ancestors Earth colors/ochre X-ray art Point-of-view Color dot patterns Organic patterns Composition symmetrical

Seminar art work to be discussed: Paddy J. Nelson, b.1919.,Burrowing Skink Dreaming 1987, Acrylic on canvas 60x48

“My father said to me, ‘Look my boy, it is your dreaming; it is a big thing. All dreamings come from there…something is there; we do not know what; but something.”- Aboriginal saying ||