User:Mozzy66/Australian Art
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Australian art refers to the visual arts made in Australia or about Australia, from prehistoric times to the present. It can largely be understood as accommodating, or rejecting, influences from Western art movements, and adapting them to the needs of the Australian natural environment and society. The visual arts have a long history in Australia, with evidence of Aboriginal art dating back at least 30,000 years. Australia has produced many notable artists of both Western and Indigenous Australian schools, including the late-19th-century Heidelberg School plein air impressionist painters, the Central Australian Hermannsburg School watercolourists, the Western Desert Art Movement and coeval examples of well-known High modernism and Postmodern art.