Vivian Komando, Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire
2D
PORTFOLIO STUDIO ART: Student
handout for the dot painting
Aboriginal
Art
Your
exam consists of a project created based on the Aboriginal Dream Time
Paintings.
1.
View
the Aboriginal Art, Past Present, and Future Video
2.
Research
Dreamtime Paintings and have 6 colored examples for design references
3.
Decide
on a theme for your painting after learning about the meanings
incorporated
into the Dreamtime paintings (http://www.ozebiz.com.au/dreamings/meaning.html )
4.
Draw
a preliminary sketch for your project and have it approved
5.
Using
the dot painting technique, paint your sketch and have it completed
for the
exam period.
*THE
PROJECT IS TO BE COMPLETED BY (DATE)
NOTES:
The
Dreamtime is often reference to the 'time before time', or 'the time
of the creation of all things', while 'Dreaming' is often used to
refer to an individual's or group's set of beliefs or spirituality.
The 'Ancestor Spirits' came to Earth in human and other forms and the
land, the plants and animals were given their form as we know them
today. These Spirits established relationships between groups and
individuals, (whether people or animals) and where they traveled
across the land, or came to a halt, they created rivers, hills, etc.,
and there are often stories attached to these places. Once their work
was done, the Ancestor Spirits changed again; into animals or stars or
hills or other objects. For Indigenous Australians, the past is still
alive and vital today and will remain so into the future. The Ancestor
Spirits and their ! powers have not gone, they are present in the
forms into which they changed at the end of the 'Dreamtime' or
'Dreaming', as the stories tell. The stories have been handed down
through the ages and are an integral part of an Indigenous person's
'Dreaming'.
http://www.aboriginalartpaintings.com/dreamtime.asp
