Aboriginal art was traditionally created to tell important stories and pass down cultural knowledge through generations. It served as a language to convey complex meanings and lessons through symbols and designs painted on natural materials. While Aboriginal art still takes inspiration from traditional stories, it is now often painted on canvas and uses dot painting techniques to represent symbols and hide secret messages within the artwork.

1. Aboriginal Art

2. Aboriginal Art was always created about important
stories in the Aboriginal Community.
Even today, Aboriginal artists use stories as
inspiration for their artwork.

3. Aboriginal Art is almost like its own language.
There are many layers of meaning to every art
piece.
The Aboriginal people have no written language of
their own, their culture uses icons (symbols) to tell
stories through generations, this is why Art work is
very important.

4. Art was often used to teach children how to
behave. The elders of a community would teach
lessons through art.

5. Aboriginal Art was usually painted on bark, rocks,
or drawn in sand or dirt and accompanied by a
song or story. Today much Aboriginal Art is painted
on canvas.

7. Many Aboriginal Artists used dot paintings to hide
secret messages within their art. The dots made is
difficult for the Aboriginal symbols to be
understood.
Most of the time, Aboriginal artworks are painted
from a birds eye view.

8. Aboriginal Symbols