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Birds under the Tree – Gond Art

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  • Original handmade tribal gond painting illustrating birds under the tree.
  • Traditional art practiced by Gond Tribe since thousands of years
  • The painting earlier used to decorate mud walls.
  • The paintings are painted with natural colors obtained from various sources like flowers, stones etc.
  • This painting has been made using colours picked by the artisans from their natural ecosystem
  • Dimensions (inches) : 31″x26″
  • Country of Origin : India

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Description

  • Gond paintings are form of paintings from folk and tribal art that is practiced by one of the largest tribes in India – the Gond – who are predominantly from Madhya Pradesh, but can also be found in pockets of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha.
  • The history of the Gond people dates nearly 1400 years. The paintings use vibrant colors like orange, yellow, blue and red, and are created with articulately drawn lines and dots as the method to bring it to life.
  • With natural colors obtained from various sources like flowers, stones, etc. are used for the creation of these beautiful paintings.
  • The Gond artists have developed their own devices to work with various contemporary mediums and materials. They would first make dots and calculate the volume of the images. These dots would be connected to bring about an outer shape, which would then be filled with colours.
  • As they respond to the immediate social situation and environment, each object they come across in life is aesthetically transformed. The images are tattoos or minimalist human and animal forms.
  • Gond paintings have been centuries-old, with the passage of time, this art form has gradually shifted from the mud walls of the houses to canvas and papers. Apart from deriving inspirations from legends and myths, these paintings majorly feature nature as their main subject.

Additional information

Weight 0.800 kg
Dimensions 78.74 × 66.04 cm

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