Indigo Village Life Warli Art

Description

• Warli painting is a beautiful Tribal art of Maharashtra, traditionally created by the tribal women.
• Tribals are the Warli, Malkharkoli, Kathodi, Kokana, Dhodi tribes found on the northern outskirts of Maharashtra.
• Tribal people express themselves in vivid styles through paintings, which they execute on the walls of their house.
• The visual energy of the Warli painting is attained through line drawings or cultivating land, colour is not the main criteria.
• Individual artists have received recognition the world over, and in recent years the medium of these paintings has transferred to paper, and cloth layered with cowdung paste which produces the characteristic natural and dull background with the motifs painted white