1. Aboriginal Australian Aesthetics Colin Ducharme & Courtney Self

5. Techniques

6. Purpose: - mourning - initiation rituals - social status - enhancement of beauty

8. Ritual purposes

9. Painted designs were owned by the individuals who wore them

11. Cave Art

12. Bark Painting Tjurungas- flat, oval, or circular slabs of wood or stone, often bearing complex paintings and incised patterns Art makers used subjective vision- representing things not as they appear to the eye, but as the mind knows them eternally to be Paint and blood Used to educate future generations Art making

16. Or the Western easel-painting styles of the non-Aboriginal world Scholars have interpreted the art to be valuable and influential in Australia’s cultural heritage