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Sociology Assignment | Aboriginal Artworks

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Sociology Assignment | Aboriginal Artworks

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Running head: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART AND INDIGENOUS IDENTITYAUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART AND INDIGENOUS IDENTITYName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:
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AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART AND INDIGENOUS IDENTITY1The essay discusses the reflection of identity in the artworks of the aboriginal artists.The indigenous art of Australia records the collaboration and representation of the struggle ofpeople to sustain their identity throughout the Australian history. Australian aboriginal artincludes works in wide range of media starting from leaves, rock carvings wood carvings,sand painting, ceremonial clothing and sculpting (Nilson et al. 2015). These modernaboriginal artworks date back to the post-colonial era but the actual connection between theidentity of the indigenous people and the Australian art has been formed over thousands ofyears. Since then, the aboriginal artists have been considering the media of visual art as adominant tool to reflect their identity in the contemporary society (Lindeman et al. 2017). In this modern era, representing art places huge credence on the concept ofindividualism. The artists are identifying numerous situations or subjects to convey theirunique culture which is interrelated with their personal selves. The aboriginal artists are notexceptional where they are pushed to distil various social, political and psychologicalchanges affecting their ethnicity and convey these factors in their own creation (Heckenberg2017). Aboriginal artists like Dorothy Napangardi and Judy Watson frequently create theirartworks which reflect their own cultural experiences. In most of the cases these are related tothe events taken place in the society after the intervention of the western culture. From theartworks of these artists implicitly reflect the concept of cultural hegemony. In response tothese cultural dominances the aboriginal artists have sought to create their distinctiveidentifies in art where they have given voice to their people and culture (Smith et al. 2015).In one of the most prominent art galleries of Australia namely the Queensland Galleryarranges exhibitions associated with aboriginal art and culture. These examine the identity ofthe Indigenous Australians, present their opinions on politics, history, personal experiences aswell as their connections to their native land (Lathouras et al 2017). The aboriginal artworksminutely address those things that are quite common and people think that they know those
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AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART AND INDIGENOUS IDENTITY2things but actually they will find a new perspective or view looking through a different pairof eyes. In the contemporary Australian aboriginal artworks, one can easily find the variousaspects of indigenous history as well as expressions. This includes their nativity combinedwith newfound identities as well as their intervention with the international cultures (Caruana2015). Over the past three decades these are the perspectives dominating the Australianaboriginal art. For this reason, there has been a wide acceptance of the indigenous artworks.This is due to fact that their artworks represent their aboriginal ancestral traditions and thecore identity which can never be found elsewhere than Australia. These are paired with theexplicit exploration of the vitality of native people in the history of Australia and expressedthrough the photographs, sculptures, illustrations and painting of the artists with aboriginalbackground.Beside these, the attitudes that the artworks of the contemporary or the traditionalartists reveal, are the reflection of the colonial encounters. It was the most important factorwhich gave birth of the issue of identity crisis in the minds of the indigenous individuals. Thetreatment that they had received from these outsiders actually affected the psychology of thenative Australians. The pathetic attempt to incorporate the natives into the white society wasactually the chief manipulative factor to the growing issue of existence. Identity is one of theprofound notion in the aboriginal art which is not only based on the process of finding one’sown place in the society completely but also expressing the voice of the present and pastcircumstances. The present artworks reveal these voices of the artists and create situationswhere others convey their experiences through telling stories of their concurrent lives. The basic theme of the Australian aboriginal arts is the connection of the aboriginalculture and their impact on their land with which most of the Australians can connect. It has
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