Armstrong, Christine - Aboriginal Art Dot-Painting, decorated with various vegetables and other objects, on textile canvas, signed and dated 2T81 on the reverse. Framed under glass, 33.5 x 41 cm Indigenous Australians maintain the oldest continuously transmitted culture on earth, and art is a key element of that millennia-old cultural identity. In addition to the always exciting line patterns in dot form, you can often find animal motifs or only abstract symbols; snakes, turtles, fish, among other things, are popular. The painting, however, is limited to the representation of symbols of objects of daily use as well as food. For these ancient people, foraging for food was of course a central factor for thousands of years, so such images are to be seen as an expression of appreciation for sufficient supply. In today's age of huge shopping malls, it seems archaic to produce such motifs, but it shows the artist's attachment to his tradition. Birth comes before nutrition, life itself, here symbolically represented by spermatozoids. Notes Painting