WARLI
PAINTING - ART & CULTURE
News:
Life through geometry in
Warli
What's
in the news?
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The triangles, circles and lines in
austere white against a mud brown background align to tell stories of village
life and the customs and traditions there on walls and canvasses.
Key
takeaways:
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Warli represents the daily routine of
rural life, the relationship of the tribal people with nature, their gods,
myths, traditions, customs, and festivities.
Warli Paintings:
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It is a style of tribal art created by the
tribal people from the North Sahyadri
Range in Maharashtra.
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This art form can be traced back to 10th
century AD but was first discovered and appreciated for its distinctive style
only in the early 1970s.
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It was traditionally practised by women of
the Warli tribe called Suvasinis,
who decorated the Lagn Chowk or the wedding square.
Theme
and Features:
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Warli represents the daily routine of rural life, the relationship of the tribal people with
nature, their gods, myths, traditions, customs and festivities.
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These rudimentary wall paintings use a set
of basic geometric shapes - a circle, a triangle, and a square.
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The central motif in each ritual painting
is the square, known as the
"chauk" or "chaukat", mostly of two types known as
Devchauk and Lagnachauk.
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One of the central aspects depicted in
many Warli paintings is the tarpa dance.
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The tarpa, a trumpet-like instrument, is
played in turns by different village men.
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Men and women entwine their hands and move
in a circle around the tarpa player.
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Cleverly
modified bamboo sticks are used as paint brushes to create
the paintings.
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The colours and materials used for the
paintings are derived from nature like brown and orange from henna, indigo from
dye, red from bricks and white from thick rice paste.