Australian art is any art made in Australia or about Australia, from
prehistoric times to the present. This includes
Aboriginal, Colonial,
Landscape,
Atelier, early twentieth century painters, print makers, photographers, and sculptors influenced by European modernism,
Contemporary art. 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 painters, the Central Australian
Hermannsburg School watercolourists, the
Western Desert Art Movement and coeval examples of well-known
High modernism and
Postmodern art.