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School Name: Boyne Island SS / Unit title:
Australian Indigenous Art / KLA(s): Art, SOSE / Year level(s): 3 / Duration of unit: 6 weeks
Identify curriculum
Ways of working / Knowledge and understanding
The Arts
· select ideas for arts works, considering particular audiences and particular purposes, using arts
· elements and languages
· practise arts works, using interpretive and technical skills
· present arts works to familiar audiences, using arts techniques, skills and processes
· follow guidelines to apply safe practices
SOSE
· communicate social and environmental ideas, using texts and terminology to match audience
· and purpose
· draw conclusions and give explanations, using information and evidence
· reflect on learning to identify new understandings. / The Arts
Visual Art
Visual Art involves using visual arts elements, concepts, processes and forms (both 2D and 3D)
to express ideas, considering particular audiences and particular purposes, through images and
objects.
• Line is used to suggest movement and direction
• Regular, irregular, open, enclosed, overlapped and adjacent shapes are used to create categories
and position
SOSE
Time, continuity and change
Changes and continuities are identified through events, people’s contributions and the stories of
local communities.
• Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander people’s continuous association with the land and
the sea can be seen in stories and events that pre-date European colonization
Culture and identity
· Stories about significant events and individuals reflect cultural diversity in local and other
Australian communities
· Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples are Australia’s Indigenous peoples and their
influences are evident and valued in Australian communities
Context for learning / Suggested Resources
Students will learn about the origins of Aboriginal art (painting) and look at artists and styles from different regions in Australia including:
· Cave paintings of far north QLD (Quinkin Country)
• Warnum Art – Kimberley – W.A. East Arnhem Land Art
• x-ray style art of West Arnhem Land, N.T
• Dot paintings from Central Australia
They will learn the origins of the style of artworks and cultural significance and meaning. Students will apply the techniques of these art styles to create their own artworks.
Focus questions.
1. What is Aboriginal Art and what is its cultural significance?
2. How do Aboriginal people use art as a form of story telling?
3. What are the different types of Aboriginal art? (rock painting, carving, basket weaving, body and bark painting, wood carving, head dresses etc)
4. What are some of the most well known Aboriginal art painting styles in Australia?
5. What techniques, materials and symbols do Aboriginal people use to create painted artworks, now and in the past? / Resources:
Quinkin Country rock art – far north QLD
http://www.quinkancc.com.au/images
Book: ‘The Cave Painters’ by Percy Trezise, (1988), isbn. 1 8651 5148 3
Warnum Art of the Kimberley region, W.A.
http://www.warmunart.com/
http://www.palya.com.au/warmun-art-centre
http://www.artlink.com.au/articles/1390/rover-thomas/ (Rover Thomas)
http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/yiwarra_kuju/rovers_legacy/ (Rover Thomas)
West Arnhem Land x-ray style art
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/xray/hd_xray.htm
http://www.injalak.com/gallery_bark.html
http://www.injalak.com/gallery_paper.html
Dot Painting
http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-dot-paintings.php
http://www.gondwananet.com/aboriginal-dot-paintings.html
http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-symbols-and-their-m.php (Symbols)
http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-symbols-glossary/ (symbols glossary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4OnT8RS8uM&feature=related (how to do it)
http://www.australianativeart.com/aboriginal-artist-john-turnbull/ QLD artist doing dot painting with modern technique
Develop assessment / Make judgments
Type of assessment / What will be assessed / When it will be assessed / Purpose of assessment / Assessable elements
Paper based test
Practical work / Students’ knowledge of the cultural significance and uses of different mediums of Aboriginal art including materials and techniques.
Students ability to accurately demonstrate application of specific Aboriginal painting styles using appropriate colours and identifying the region of origin of each style / Week 6
Week 6 / To assess students knowledge and understanding of the cultural significance of Aboriginal art.
To assess students ability to correctly apply Aboriginal painting techniques, symbols and patterns, using line and shape and appropriate colours. / knowledge and understanding
creating
Sequence learning
Learning experiences and teaching strategies / Adjustments for needs of learners / Suggested Resources
Week 1
• Introduction to unit – What is Aboriginal art?
• Discussion on what students already know about Aboriginal art
• Show students exemplar of practical assessment task – to create 3 artworks based on the styles of 3 major Aboriginal painting styles in Australia to form a triptych.
• Read story ‘The Cave Painters’ to students, focus on how the people used the cave paintings in their lives. (see questions for discussion at end of Word Document).
• Show word document on IWB to discuss author. Use questions on Word doc to check students understanding of the relevance and use of the cave paintings in the Quinkin people’s culture.
• Watch short doco on rock art of North West Arnhem Land ‘Djulirri’ and then whole class questions and discussion about Aboriginal contact with other groups and recording of events etc. / • http://www.redotgallery.com/ (Introduction to Aboriginal Art)
• Book: The Cave Painters by Percy Tresize
• Word document on Quinkin Country rock paintings and Percy Tresize
• Show actual rock art paintings with
http://www.quinkancc.com.au/images
http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2008/national/indigenous-rock-art/index.html
Week 2
• Art of the Warmun Region of the Kimberley, W.A.
• Learn about Rover Thomas and his art using Power Point
• discussion of materials used http://www.warmunart.com/about.htm
• show students the Kimberley ochres, slideshow of Warmun art.
• Students sketch design for Warmun style painting.
• Students start painting Warmun style painting using traditional colours. / • Prepare 3 pieces of thick paper, pref watercolour or acrylic paper 12cm x 22cm per student.
• Kimberley ochres (from Gladstone picture framing)
• Power Point on Rover Thomas ( available on CD)
Week 3
· continue and finish Warnum style painting
· Intro to x-ray style art – technique of crosshatching
· Ochres – how are they made? What are they made from? Do practical activity to make ochres with CSIRO rock painting activity.
· West Arnhem art examples – echidna, fish, mat and spears, basket weaving, dilly bag. (review doco on NW Arnhem art)
· paint turtles using East Arnhem wood carving turtle example.
· Discuss the origin of x-ray style art – look at location of West Arnhem/Kakadu regions on map
· practice cross hatching with a pencil.
· Students trace turtle shape onto black card and then use acrylic paint to apply crosshatching technique to body, as in wood carving example. / • black cardboard, approx size A5 – 1 per student.
• turtle templates
• acrylic paint (white, red, yellow, brown and earthy colours)
website about ochre and its application
http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/methods/methods.php
• examples of West Arnhem cross hatching and East Arnhem Wood Carvings.
CSIRO Rock painting activity. http://www.csiro.au/resources/rock-painting-activity.html
• use own artwork and/or these websites to show examples of x-ray West Arnhem Land art.
http://www.injalak.com/gallery_bark.html
http://www.injalak.com/gallery_paper.html
Week 4
• Dot Painting – discussion about what sts know about dot painting, where have they seen them, colours, objects, what part of Australia do they come from etc?
• History of dot painting – what do the dots represent and how are the paintings done? Show students the John Turnbull site with you tube video and the video on how to do a dot painting with sticks.
• Show the students various dot paintings on the net and discuss the possible meanings.
• Look at the symbols used in dot painting, what do they mean? How are they used in paintings.
• Students draw a design of their own using symbols to tell a story. / http://www.australianativeart.com/aboriginal-artist-john-turnbull/
http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-symbols-and-their-m.php (Symbols)
http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-symbols-glossary/ (symbols glossary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4OnT8RS8uM&feature=related (how to do it)
http://www.didgeswedoo.com.au/aboriginals.html
Various Aboriginal story books featuring dot painting illustrations
Week 5
Complete dot painting and assemble 3 panels to cardboard.
Revision of painting styles.
Completed artworks to be handed in for assessment by end of week 6
Week 6
Written test
Viewing of and feedback of artworks
Group discussions /reflection– what have we learned about Aboriginal Art and Culture? Students to discuss in small groups then present their ideas to the class in informal discussion. Write responses on whiteboard/large clipboard.
Use feedback
Ways to monitor learning and assessment
Observations of practical work
Questioning
Crossword quizzes
Practical task assessment (will have a rubric)
Written test assessment (will have a rubric)
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