It's kind of like the Egyptians drew their pictures on the walls because they wanted to keep record of all the happenings and going ons. Aboriginals probably did the same.
the aboriginals prayed by using paintings and instruments as guides
Sand paintings, rock art, totems, dot paintings- and possibly others:)
no they did but they told people through paintings
The traditional art of the aboriginals is dots doing dots in the sand. Some of the other traditional art is painting on rocks and in caves. The reason aboriginals do dot paintings now is when white people came to Australia they saw the paintings and thought they would be good on a canvas.
leafs,rocks,wood and there skin
with a pencil
You draw drawings, but yoy paint paintings. The total number of his works is listed as 16840. This includes not only paintings, but also sculptures, drawings and ceramic works.
Years ago, our ancestors came to Australia, It is just possible that some people from this group were assigned the task of recording their beliefs, hopes, fears, and spirits by painting on the rocks of carefully considered locations. If that is the case, the cave paintings in the Kimberley region of North West Australia could be among the earliest figure paintings ever; these paintings are the Bradshaw paintings or gwion gwion to aborigines.
ALL of his paintings!
He did not DRAW much - he PAINTED. His paintings are oil paint on canvas.
yes,paintings. He loved to draw.
over 270