Aboriginal Art Vocabulary

4. When a particular design element occurs several times within one artwork. When it is repeated constantly it creates a pattern.
5. An enclosed space.
6. A view as if looking down over something from above.
10. The original people to live in an area.
12. The repetition of an element in a work.
13. A mark or character used as a representation of a person, place, animal, object, or idea.
14. The aboriginal group who create acrylic dot paintings.
15. An element of art by which positive and negative areas are defined in a work of art.

1. An element of art that refers to the way things feel, or look as if they might feel if touched.
2. A style of painting practiced by the Papunya people that incorporates dots and icons to connect the artists to the Dreaming.
3. Mythical stories from the Dreaming used by Aboriginal people for their rituals and arts.
7. The use of repeated parallel lines which cross over other parallel lines at a different angle.
8. The element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.
9. A traditional style used to depict local animals showing some anatomical features.
11. A visual image that represents a person, place, animal, object, or idea.