Comparative Essay on Art

The two ancient art cultures that I will be studying will be Chinese art and Aboriginal art. Both these cultures have evidence of artwork dating back as far as a couple of thousand years ago.

Australian Aboriginal contemporary traditional work depicts themes connected to the “Dreamtime” and is frequently called "Dreamings". This has nothing to do with sleep or the western concept for the word "dream". The Dreamtime is the period in which the first ancestors of men -- spirits, heroes performed creative acts, and heroines who established the pattern of nature and life, and created man's environment. This included all the trees, man, woman and all animals. The Dreamtime is a process as well as a period: it had its beginning when the world was young and unformed, but it has never ceased. The ancestor who established law and patterns of behaviour is as alive today as when he performed his original creative acts. The sacred past, the Dreamtime, is for Aborigines also the sacred present, the Eternal Dreamtime. About 140,000 years ago a large amount of evaporated ocean water became locked up on land in the form of glaciers, resulting in a significant drop in sea level. This

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Approximate Word count = 1351
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)