City of Perth’s paintings and sculpture

Visual arts in the city of Perth include landscapes, Australian aboriginal art, colonial, contemporary art, atelier, and modernist. The Perth community’s visual arts have been used as a socialization mode whereby they pass messages from one generation to another and they have also been created to educate the future generations through archival modes. The people of Perth in the traditional societies had great respect for the land and regarded it as sacred and this is depicted in most of their visual artworks. These visual artifacts tell a tale of the traditional Perth community’s journey to modernization and even touch on the Europeans invasion of their land. The people of Perth use these forms of art to express their moods, feelings, and thoughts and they have also been used to depict fashion, intellect, technology, hobbies, and entrepreneurship among others which all represent their way of life. For example, aboriginal art is used to show how life was before the coming of the Europeans (Aboriginal art, 2010).