Read the following passage and fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
The Australian Aborigines have recorded both real and symbolic images of their time on rock walls for many thousands of years. (61)…………..the long history of this tradition, new images have appeared and new painting styles have developed. And these characteristics can be used to categorize the different artistic styles. Among these are what we (62)…………..the Dynamic, Yam and Modern styles of painting.
One of the (63)…………..significant characteristics of the different styles is the
way that humans are depicted in the paintings. The more recent paintings show people in static poses. But the first human images to dominate rock art paintings, over 8,000 years ago, were full of movement. These paintings showed people hunting and cooking food and so they were (64)…………..the name ‘Dynamic’ to reflect this energy. It’s quite amazing considering they were painted in (65)…………..a simple stick-like form. In the Yam period, there was a movement away from stick figures to a more naturalistic shape. (66)………….., they didn’t go as far as the Modern style, which is known as ‘x-ray’ because it actually makes a feature of the internal skeleton as (67)…………..as the organs of animals and humans. The Yam style of painting got its name from the fact that it featured much curvier figures that actually resemble the vegetable called a yam, (68) …………..is similar to a sweet potato. The Modern paintings are interesting because they include paintings at the time of the first contact with European settlers. Aborigines managed to convey the idea of the settlers’ clothing by simply painting the Europeans (69) …………..any hands, indicating the habit of standing with their hands in their pockets! Size is another characteristic. The more recent images tend to be life size or even larger, but the Dynamic figures are (70)…………..in miniature.
(61)…………..the long history of this tradition, new images have appeared and new painting styles have developed.
