Paintings

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The secret of painting

The Aborigines painted a lot of pictures. In the past and in the present. At work they use a "pool" of basic symbols. You can recognize them in different paintings.

This pictures, often painted on rocks or bark, show two main different looks. There is the X-Ray Look, showing the innards of an animal. The stories are another typical form of paintings. Many pictures tell a story about the forebears from the dreamtime. The picture must be read in a certain direction on that occasion. The beginning of the story can be everywhere the picture and is not e.g., in the upper left or right side.

List of differnet styles

The following pages will describe the styles. It is more easy with the help of examples:

• Basic symbols
• X-Ray Look (at the example of The Kangaroo-Hunt)
• Stories (at the example of The Killing of Lumaluma)

List of different picture-examples

The folowing pages will describe the images:

• The Kangaroo-Hunt
• Nabulwinjbulwinj
• The Emu
• The Killing of Lumaluma
• Namondjok
• The Origin of the Wupper Valley (my self experiment)