WARLI ART TRIBAL ART FROM MAHARASTRA

Presented By….. Dolly Goyal

Presidium - Indirapuram

Folk ArtFolk Art

Folk Art is an artist's expressions in pictorial form and usually choose epic narratives from the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Puranas etc..

Folk Art also depict the daily village life, social customs, rituals, birds, animals and the elements of nature and earth

Folk Art list includes wall paintings, calendar paintings, oil classics, cave paintings, miniatures

Folk paintings use very vibrant and natural colours and papers, clothes, leaves, earthen pots, mud walls, etc are used as canvas

Type of Folk ArtType of Folk ArtIndian folk art include the various art forms

Phad paintings

Warli paintings

Madhubani paintings

Patachitra

Kalamkari

Pata paintings

Pithora

Tanjore work

Warli ArtWarli Art

Warli art is a folk arts tradition of Warli people.

Warli people belong to small districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat

Warli art is characterized to depict the basic principles of life especially living a tribal life

Themes rotate around harvest season, marriage, child birth, rituals, festivals

It portrays two very essential characteristics: Simplicity and humbleness

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Warli paintings are geometric designs such as, circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, curvy, crooked lines to depict human figures, animal figures, houses, nature

Warli art uses monochromatic colours usually white on a red earthen background

Warli painting with a marriage theme will typically depict their marriage God Palghat, men and women dancing n circles, birds, trees

Warli painting with The harvest season theme will depict the laborers cutting the crop in the fields

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