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Australian Indigenous Visual Culture
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
contemporary, Jokepa, Tiwi, country, geometric, men, Australia, cave, women, Balgo, artists, ancestral, paint, indigenous, ceremonial, spirit, ephemeral, Papunya, composition, ground, ceremony, artifact
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contemporary                      art
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gathering momentum in                    from the 1970s onwards
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indigenous visual culture is the longest continuous art form on the planet
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50,000 years
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prior to contact by Europeans, its locus was
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primary                 
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largely                   
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1971
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following the work of bark painters and sculptors in Arnhem land in the          Islands
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laid the ground work for revolution in indigenous art
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artists at                transferred designs onto small sheets of                        board
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before that only visible on                      ground
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women not allowed to           
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before this art
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Papunya art was viewed as                 
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a curiosity
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not deserved to be considered as equivalent as art
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Papunya art was seen as art
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not works for use in ceremony
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they were largely                   , seemingly abstract
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dots form an important part of iconography
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shields
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         walls
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used on the body and on the             
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term: "dot painting"
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these painting showed the actions of                    beings
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from a place called the             
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art was bequeathed to next generations
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the              of a person comes from a particular place in the landscape to which the person will return when they pass away
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continuous life cycle
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the position of            in traditional society
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the emergence of women as               
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the 1980s the first time to work as artists in their own right
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women began painting at Yuendumu, Lajamanu and           
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in discussion with        gained permission to use dots because dots belonged to men
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their works were about their responsibilities to               
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less formal than those of men
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Emily, Cara, and Laura were leading artists in this society
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one canvas of Emily's
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was reproduced on the cover of the group's publication
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women's linear designs was covered by a field of dots
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used to be the predominant iconography of Papunya men's painting
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what was happening at Yuendumu or Balgo
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collectors wanted to see more of Emily's works
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but she had no knowledge of any                          art movement

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More curiosities of human behavior, via tonight's Sexing the Canvas: "Art and Gender course:"In the mid 1980s, women in Australian aborigine cultures of Yuendumu, Lajamanu and Balgo began to work as artists in their own right. Up to this point, women were only allowed to paint with stripes and lines. Beginning around 1986, in discussion with men, women gained permission to use dots because dots belonged to men."
Tiepolo´s Cleopatra: Agency in Paint
The Political and Sexual Agency of Cleopatra
Gainesborough and 18th Century Effeminism
Soldiers, Chivalry, and Men of Feeling
Gainsborough's Portrait of Karl Friedrich Abel
The Ligoniers: The Tensions of Gender in Paint
Effeminacy and the Culture of Sensibility
Gainsborough's Cottage Door: Charity and Sensibility
Seduction in Boucher's pastoral paintings
Boucher's Madame de Pompadour: Controlling the Gaze
Rococo Eroticism in 18th Century Popular Culture
John Lavery in Morocco: Orientalism and the Academy
Hazel Lavery and the Politics of Display
Hilda Rix Nicholas in Morocco
The Dream by Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy
Restaging the Nude: Matisse's Dance
Cezanne’s Bather: Masculinity and Movement
Max Dupain (1911-1992): Australian Men on the Beach
Frida Kahlo's Fulang-Chang and I
Frida Kahlo: Self Portrait with Cropped Hair
Myth and Sexuality: Glyn Philpot's Oedipus
Australian Indigenous Visual Culture