Thursday, October 13, 2011

Warli Painting

Warli Painting is one of the Exotic Indian Art.


The word “ Warli” comes from “warla” which means a piece of land or a field Despite being in such close proximity of the largest metropolis in India, Warli tribesmen are still not urban. Warli Art was first discovered in the early seventies. While there are no records of the exact origins of this art, its roots may be traced to as early as the 10th century AD. Warli is the vivid expression of daily and social events of the Warli tribe of Maharashtra, used by them to decorate the walls of village houses.

These paintings do not depict mythological characters, but depict social life. Images of human beings and animals, along with scenes from daily life are created in a loose rhythmic pattern. Painted white on mud walls, they are pretty close to pre-historic cave paintings in execution and usually depict scenes of human figures engaged in activities like hunting, dancing, sowing ,harvesting, going out, drawing water from well, drying clothes or even dancing.



See this Image below :-



How to Draw it :-



Its very easy to draw.


Choose or think a some view that you wanted to show in ur painting.


The typical subjects on which Warli Art is done are :



Festival


Harvest


Folk story


Celebration


Temple Marriage


The major highlight is these all have people in group dipecting the social life.


Patterns of Warli Paintings :-

It basically consists of geometrical patterns


•Circle: representing the sun and the moon


•Triangle: triangle derived from mountains and pointed trees


•Square: indicating a sacred enclosure or a piece of land. So the central motive in each ritual painting is the square


These geometric figures are joined together to form beautiful patterns .Like two apex of triangles are joined together to form a human figure. In most of the Warli paintings they showed lot of trees as well while warli painting made. One can experiment with lots of background color like black, red, yellow, white etc.















See the above experiment with fabric...!!!!!



Warli paintings on paper have become very popular and are now sold all over India. Today, small paintings are done on cloth and paper but they look best on the walls or in the form of huge murals that bring out the vast and magical world of the Warlis. For the Warlis, tradition is still adhered to but at the same time new ideas have been allowed to seep in which helps them face new challenges from the market. See the below picture warli painting on paper.



Its and Old form of Indian Art. So, guies what are waiting for try this out.

Its One of the easy and simple art which anyone can do. Try it with your imagination and some more theams.


















Now I am going to try it on Ceramic as well.

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