India is a land of festivals and diversity. Her warm weather, cycle of seasons and vivacious flora & fauna inspires her inhabitants to bring the vibrancy of color, flow and expression in their day to day living without putting it on pedestal. In this series of articles, we will introduce the wonderful traditional arts from India.
Warli Paintings:
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| Warli Dance |
Warli painting is a form of art that uses pictographs of white rice flour expressing folk life of the Warli people on the mud walls of their huts. Literally meaning a 'piece of field', Warla is a tribal population from the western ghats of the state of Maharashtra. Women usually indulge in this art during ceremonies, social gatherings and harvest seasons. Their paintings depict human and animal figures using geometric shapes of circles, triangles and squares, connected with dashes and dots, engaged in activities like cooking, farming, hunting, and celebrating with scenes of their villages or the surrounding countryside.
Many tribal artists have won prestigious awards for rejuvenating this simple, childlike art form. In modern times it continue to emphasize the inter-connectedness of human beings and nature on handmade papers and wooden articles. For the Warlis, life is an eternal circle. At the occasions of birth, marriage, and death, they draw circles that are symbolic of Mother Goddess. Death is not the end for them; rather it is a new beginning. This is why circles best represent the art of Warli, which has neither an end nor a beginning.
An artist from Heart2Heart, Shyamal Khadye is inspired to create the card ‘Warli Dance’in this style.
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