Warli Paintings

About Warli painting

• Warli painting is a style of tribal art mostly created by the tribal people from the North Sahyadri Range in India.
• This tribal art was originated in Maharashtra, where it is still practiced today.
• Women are mainly engaged in the creation of these paintings.

Themes and Style:

• These paintings do not depict mythological characters or images of deities, but depict social life. Images of human beings and animals, along with scenes from daily life are created in a loose rhythmic pattern.
• These tribal paintings of Maharashtra are traditionally done in the homes of the Warlis. 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 and harvesting.
• These rudimentary wall paintings use a set of basic geometric shapes: a circle, a triangle, and a square. These shapes are symbolic of different elements of nature.
  • The circle represents the sun and the moon, while the triangle is derived from mountains and pointed trees.
  • In contrast, the square appears to be a human invention, indicating a sacred enclosure or a piece of land.
• The central motif in each ritual painting is the square, known as the "chalk" or "Shaukat", mostly of two types known as Devchauk and Lagnachauk. Inside a Devchauk is usually a depiction of Palaghata, the mother goddess, symbolizing fertility.

PRELIMS QUESTION

Warli Painting” is a type of painting from:
(a)Tamil Nadu
(b)Kerala
(c)Maharashtra
(d)Karnataka

Answer to prelims question