Aboriginal Art: Traditional to Contemporary

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The resurgence of Australian Indigenous art has become one of the 'most brilliant and exciting new eras of modern art.' (cited in Contemporary Aboriginal Art) It has grown with such amazing diversity and enthusiasm that art critic, Robert Hughes, has described it as 'the last great art movement.' For indigenous Australians art has been a part of their culture and tradition for thousands of years and is recognised as one of the oldest …

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…to form what is now Australia's largest visual industry. What started out as a way for Aborigines to retell their Dreamtime stories has now become a source of both economic independence and cultural pride. However despite the ever evolving styles of Aboriginal art, Aboriginal artists have not diverged from their content, which is explicitly Aboriginal. Rather, they have expressed to Australia and the rest of the world a unique culture, which has been previously neglected.