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About type of art
Name of Tribal Painting Warli Painting
Name of Tribe Warli Tribe
Art Form Warli Painting
Use of Materials
Wall of Houses, Wooden Stick, Cloth, Background design is earthen colour or reddish Colour. House walls are painted with cow dung powder and Coating is given with geru powder, white paste is made from rice flour and paste is prepared with water etc.
Subject matter
Warli Tribes importance tribal of South Gujarat.Warli caste is a special and prominent caste among other tribal castes of South Gujarat. As the Warli tribe is less exposed to the developed society, their life is more lively and folk traditional than other tribes. The uniqueness of the Warli community who can dance for hours even in extreme poverty and starve is its folk tales, Folk songs, painting Warli painting, dance and unique dialects are found. Warli painting is world famous, it is known as Warli painting Such a paintings are painted by Warli tribe women on walls painted at home on weddings or Diwali.
This painting is painted with a single colour white on a grey brown wall painted at home on weddings or Diwali by Warli women. Makes a brush out of grass. Then some yellow and red dots of turmeric and kanku are placed on the finger tips.
The art of painting found in the Warli tribes has religious belief. The wall of the house is painted with dung mixed with white ash and soaked rice and then drawn with a bamboo stick. It is related to religious beliefs and their daily activities, forest, agriculture, wild animals, birds, home etc. Especially Kansari Devi, Palgut Devi, Vaghdev, Diwali etc. are depicted in it. In Warli paintings are drawn periodically and seasonally and according to Badha Manta. They believe in the belief that their family and body should be happy, the house should be full of grains, apart from this, even if someone falls ill in the house, they make pictures. Thus Warli painting is closely connected with the belief of happy life and desired fruit.
Symbolic Meanings
Warli pictorial art and literature are imbued with nature. In Warli painting art The drawings seen are a glimpse of the social, cultural, religious, professional and economic activities, natural life of the Warli tribe. Warli His daily life and religious connections are seen especially in painting .
The wall of the house smearing clay on cow dung, pounding white ash and soaked rice and mixing both together and drawing with a bamboo stick. This art depicts primitive scenes, religious beliefs and their daily activities, forest, agriculture,wild animals,birds and houses etc. Warli people depicted their gods and goddesses, hariot processions, marriage journeys, fields, men and women working in the fields, carts, tractors, harvested crops, decorated houses, women carrying hay bales, cots made in the courtyard of the house, children playing, munching birds, cows, bullocks, dogs, house toddlers, panihari etc. and presents various aspects of their life. It is believed that behind this, so that ones family and body remain happy. May the house be full of grain. Apart from this, someone gets sick at homeSoAlso makes pictures. Panchavi is made on Nagapancham.
In Warli painting they Kansaridevi Goddess of Grain, Palgut Devi, Mahalakshmi, Lagan Marriage Chowk,Vaghdev, Pictures of Diwali, Jungle, Panchvi etc are drawn. In Warlis, paintings are drawn periodically and seasonally. Alsopictures are drawn according to the perceived obstacles. Picture of Palgut Devi In houses where women make pictures on the eve of boy-girl marriage. The parents of the boy or girl who are going to get married have a lot of faith in this image and their daughter-in-law will be very happy. No one should suffer. May her husband also be happy and may both live in peace. Keep progressing every year. Let the sun give him light, the moon give him coolness. The hopes and ambitions of a mad goddess protecting her lover are depicted. Such beliefs are expressed that the girl climbs the stairs of happiness from the hill of sorrow and the cow bells keep swaying at her doorstep.
Warli painting mainly uses ocher clay-like color, turmeric-like yellow color, henna-like green, black and white. Earlier Warli villagers used to make white from rice flour, green from leaves or saffron or red from flowers. Today in modern Warli painting we can paint this style using acrylic colors, oil colors or other colours.