Warli Painting




Warli , art named after a tribe in Maharashtra. You can easily recognize this art as you see beautiful basic geometric shapes circle, triangle and squares combined together to form nature and human images painted with only white color  on brick red background.
Warli painting is mainly done by ADIVASI from North Sahyadri range in Maharashtra, India. Warli tradition is supposed to stretching back to 3000BC.

There are no mythological characters or god ,goddesses in warli but it shows pictures of human nature and day to day activity of people in very artistic and rhythmic patterns. You will see people are dancing, hunting farming etc. in the paintings.

In present days, artists like Jiyva Soma Mashe are reviving this art form and is exhibited in galleries around the world.

Warli in modern Life
Have you seen Warli Paintings on walls of some of Five Start hotels in Mumbai? 
Now a day we see many offices cherishes Warli Paintings on their wall as a status or official symbol. You must have seen tourist buses and websites with the Warli Paintings.

A lot of t-shirts, linen and merchandise at tourist places and exhibitions are attracting people’s attention.

Schools are taking workshops on Warli Painting.

Now is this a latest fashion?

Not really, we are referring to mural style rudimentary paintings that date back to the early 10th century. They are so easy to paint that even a child can master them. They don’t need any great artistic skill either. Some practice of the common symbols is all you need to set the trend rolling on the walls of your home.





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