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The art is the oldest firmly dated rock painting in Australia. [7] However, radiocarbon dating of charcoal excavated from the base of the lowest stratigraphic layer of the floor returned a mean age of 45 180 ± 910 years cal BP suggesting the oldest date for the earliest human habitation. [1]
The oldest examples of rock art, in Western Australia's Pilbara region and the Olary district of South Australia, are estimated to be up to around 40,000 years old. [7] The oldest firmly dated evidence of rock art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a small rock fragment found during the excavation of the Narwala Gabarnmang rock ...
Henry Leonardus van den Houten (1801–1879): Dutch-Australian painter, lithographer and art teacher; Valma Howell (1896–1979): painter, actress; Laurence Hotham Howie (1876–1963): South Australian sculptor, painter, and art teacher; John Howley (1931–2020): painter; Frank Hurley (1885–1962): photographer, filmmaker and adventurer
Australian art is a broad spectrum of art created in or about Australia, or by Australians overseas, spanning from prehistoric times to the present day. The art forms include, but are not limited to, Aboriginal , Colonial, Landscape , Atelier , and Contemporary art .
Gwion Gwion (Tassel) figures wearing ornate costumes. The Gwion Gwion rock paintings, Gwion figures, Kiro Kiro or Kujon (also known as the Bradshaw rock paintings, Bradshaw rock art, Bradshaw figures and the Bradshaws) are one of the two major regional traditions of rock art found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The NGV's Australian art collection encompasses Indigenous (Australian Aboriginal) art and artefacts, Australian colonial art, Australian Impressionist art, 20th century, modern and contemporary art. The first curator of Australian Art was Brian Finemore, from 1960 until his death in 1975.
A bush burial (earlier known as The last of the pioneers) is an 1890 painting by the Australian artist Frederick McCubbin.The painting depicts a burial attended by a small group - an older man reading from a book, a younger man with a dog, and a woman and child.
Kenneth William David Jack AM MBE RWS, (5 October 1924 – 10 June 2006) was an Australian watercolour artist who specialised in painting the images of an almost forgotten outback life: old mine workings, ghost towns, decaying farm buildings.