Editing Australian rules football (section)

===In the arts and popular culture===
{{Main|Australian rules football in popular culture}}
[[File:Tandy Fleiter Cazaly.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Sydney Swans|South Melbourne]]'s ruck combination of the 1920s, left to right: [[Mark Tandy (Australian rules footballer)|Mark Tandy]], [[Fred Fleiter]] and [[Roy Cazaly]]. Fleiter coined the phrase "Up there, Cazaly!" as a signal for Cazaly to leap for the ball. It entered popular idiom as a phrase of encouragement, and was used as a [[battle cry]] by Australian soldiers during World War II. It remains well known through [[Mike Brady (musician)|Mike Brady]]'s 1979 Australian football anthem [[Up There Cazaly|of the same name]].]]

Australian football has inspired works by many writers and poets, including [[C. J. Dennis]], [[Helen Garner]], [[Peter Goldsworthy]] and [[Kerry Greenwood]].<ref name="double">{{Citation|author=Alomes, Stephen |year=2007 |title=The Lie of the Ground: Aesthetics and Australian Football |journal=Double Dialogues |publisher=[[Deakin University]] |issue=8 |issn=1447-9591 |url=http://www.doubledialogues.com/archive/issue_eight/alomes.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602204039/http://www.doubledialogues.com/archive/issue_eight/alomes.html |archive-date=2 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Heath |first=Nicola |date=3 December 2024 |title=New Helen Garner book The Season uses football to create a tender portrait of youthful masculinity |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/helen-garner-new-book-the-season-review/104673484 |work=ABC News |location= |publisher=ABC |access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref> Historians [[Manning Clarke]] and [[Geoffrey Blainey]] have also written extensively on the sport. [[Glossary of Australian rules football|Slang within Australian football]] has impacted [[Australian English]] more broadly, with a number of expressions taking on new meanings in non-sporting contexts, e.g., to "[[wikt:guernsey#Noun|get a guernsey]]" is to gain recognition or approval, while "[[wikt:shirt-front|shirt-front]]ing" someone is to accost them.<ref>[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shirtfronting "Shirtfronting"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327110815/https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shirtfronting |date=27 March 2023 }}, Cambridge Dictionary. Retrieved 29 March 2022.</ref>

[[File:Nicky Winmar statue.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Statue of Indigenous Hall of Famer [[Nicky Winmar]] pointing to his skin in 1993 in protest of racial vilification, erected outside Perth Stadium in 2019]]
In 1889, [[Heidelberg School|Australian impressionist]] painter [[Arthur Streeton]] captured football games ''[[en plein air]]'' for the [[9 by 5 Impression Exhibition]], titling one work ''The National Game''.<ref>Clark, Jane (1985). ''Golden Summers: Heidelberg and Beyond'', pp. 112–117</ref> Paintings by [[Sidney Nolan]] (''[[Footballer (painting)|Footballer]]'', 1946) and [[John Brack]] (''[[Three of the Players]]'', 1953) helped to establish Australian football as a serious subject for modernists,<ref>McAullife, Chris (1995). "Eyes on the Ball: Images of Australian Rules Football", ''[[Art & Australia]]'' (Vol 32 No 4), pp. 490–500</ref> and many [[contemporary Indigenous Australian art|Aboriginal artists]] have explored the game, often fusing it with the mythology of their region.<ref>Heathcote, Christopher (August 2009). "Bush Football: The Kunoth Family", ''Art Monthly'' (Issue 222).</ref><ref>Angel, Anita (23 November 2009). [http://www.cdu.edu.au/advancement/artcollection/lookingatart_dec.html "Looking at Art"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523230557/http://www.cdu.edu.au/advancement/artcollection/lookingatart_dec.html |date=23 May 2014 }}, [[Charles Darwin University]] Art Collection & Art Gallery. Retrieved 23 May 2014.</ref> [[Vincent Namatjira]] won the 2020 [[Archibald Prize]] for his portrait of [[Adam Goodes]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Sprague |first=Quentin |date=1 February 2021 |title=The paintbrush is a weapon: Vincent Namatjira |url=https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2021/february/1612098000/quentin-sprague/paintbrush-weapon-vincent-namatjira |access-date=1 April 2025 |website=[[The Monthly]]}}</ref>

In cartooning, [[William Ellis Green|WEG]]'s VFL/AFL premiership posters—inaugurated in 1954—have achieved iconic status among Australian football fans.<ref>Rielly, Stephen (30 December 2008). [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/cartoonist-spoke-to-afl-tribe/story-e6frg7mx-1111118433741 "Cartoonist William Ellis Green spoke to AFL tribe"], ''The Australian''. Retrieved 5 December 2013.</ref> [[List of Australian rules football statues|Australian football statues]] can be found throughout the country, some based on famous photographs, among them [[Haydn Bunton Sr.]]'s leap, [[Jack Dyer]]'s [[Jack Dyer#Photograph from 1944 Essendon match|charge]] and [[Nicky Winmar]] [[Nicky Winmar#Famous photograph|lifting his jumper]].<ref>Green, Warwick (16 September 2018). [https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/from-photo-to-statue-winmar-s-stance-still-powerful-20180916-p5043f.html "From photo to statue: Winmar's stance still powerful"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331170750/https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/from-photo-to-statue-winmar-s-stance-still-powerful-20180916-p5043f.html |date=31 March 2022 }}, ''The Age''. Retrieved 31 March 2022.</ref> In the 1980s, a group of [[postmodern]] architects based in Melbourne began incorporating references to Australian football into their buildings, an example being [[RMIT Building 8|Building 8]] by [[Edmond and Corrigan]].<ref>Reinmuth, Gerard (2019). "Reflection on Wars Past". In ''Sydney vs Melbourne''. UTS Architecture, p. 54. {{isbn|978-3-16-148410-0}}.</ref><ref>Van Schaik, Leon (1996). In ''Building 8: 10 Essays''. Schwarz Transition, pp. 48–53. {{isbn|978-1-863-95314-6}}.</ref>

Dance sequences based on Australian football feature heavily in [[Robert Helpmann]]'s 1964 ballet ''[[The Display]]'', his first and most famous work for the [[Australian Ballet]].<ref>Douglas, Tim (30 August 2012). [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/ballets-former-glories-show-footys-left-its-mark/story-e6frg8n6-1226461140091 "Ballet's former glories show footy's left its mark"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121130512/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/ballets-former-glories-show-footys-left-its-mark/story-e6frg8n6-1226461140091 |date=21 January 2015 }}, ''The Australian''. Retrieved 8 June 2014.</ref> The game has also inspired well-known plays such as ''[[And the Big Men Fly]]'' (1963) by [[Alan Hopgood]] and [[David Williamson]]'s ''[[The Club (play)|The Club]]'' (1977), which was [[The Club (1980 film)|adapted into a 1980 film]], directed by [[Bruce Beresford]]. [[Mike Brady (musician)|Mike Brady]]'s 1979 hit "[[Up There Cazaly]]" is considered an Australian football anthem, and references to the sport can be found in works by popular musicians, from singer-songwriter [[Paul Kelly (Australian musician)|Paul Kelly]] to the alternative rock band [[TISM]].<ref>Worrell, Shane (3 April 2010). [http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/news/local/sport/general/modern-footy-not-in-tune/1793202.aspx?storypage=2 "Modern footy not in tune"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924105026/https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/708100/modern-footy-not-in-tune/ |date=24 September 2021 }}, ''[[Bendigo Advertiser]]''. Retrieved 5 December 2013.</ref> Others, such as [[Tame Impala]]'s [[Kevin Parker (musician)|Kevin Parker]], have written songs for their favourite AFL club.<ref>{{cite news |last=Newstead |first=Al |date=24 May 2021 |title=Tame Impala's Kevin Parker writes new song for Fremantle Dockers |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/tame-impala-kevin-parker-new-afl-song-for-fremantle-dockers/13356372 |work=Triple J |location= |publisher=ABC |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref> Many [[List of Australian rules football video games|Australian football video games]] have been released, notably the [[AFL (video game series)|AFL series]].