Gond Wall Art – Parent Birds

Description

• Gond painting is form of painting 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.