WARLI ART

WARLI ART
Contemporary Indian Tribal Art

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Warlis carry on a tradition stretching back to 2500 or 3000 BCE.

The Warlis are an indigenous tribe or Adivasis, living in Mountainous as well as coastal areas of Maharashtra-Gujarat border and surrounding areas in India.They have their own animistic beliefs,life,customs and traditions,as a result of acculturation they have adopted many Hindu beliefs.

They speak an unwritten dialect mingling Sanskrit, Marathi and Gujarati words. The word  "Warli" comes from "warla" which means a piece of land or a field...

Warli paintings use a very basic graphic vocabulary: a circle, a triangle and a square.These paintings are monosyllbic. The circle and triangle come from the observation of nature, the circle representing the sun and the moon, the triangle derived from mountains and pointed trees. 

Check out the different shades of warli in my paintings depicting harvest season, celebration and marriage.

Green- Depicting "Harvest Season in India". Painting has a dancing peacock, house having plantations, flying birds, villagers carrying dry grass and pot. People cleaning and grinding the harvest, bullock cart and fields growing wheat. 

Blue Depicting- "Celebration". Painting has Lord Ganesha, flying birds, hut with a baby asleep in a cradle made of cloth, another house with staircase and women cooking, people carrying dry grass, group of people dancing in a circle with musical instruments being played in the middle, a 'Well' and ladies carrying pots of water on their head, a bullock cart and some trees.

Red Depicting- "Marriage" This is my favourite ! Painting has a marriage mandap (set up) with the dulha and dulhan (bride and groom) holding garlands, a holy fire in the middle (hom), ladies carrying diya ( lamp) and kalash ( an auspicious pot having coconut, mango leaves and kumkum), people playing various musical instruments and dancing, a horse and doli (bride used to be traditionally carried in this to the grooms house.) and crackers in the backdrop.

Below is yet another painting depicting scenes in night and day time-

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