pot painting – varsha

Warli refers to the tribe who live in the North Sahyadri Range in Maharashtra. Warli Art is the tribal art made by these Warli tribe. Generally women are involved in making these arts. They use basic shapes like triangles to represent a human. These artforms generally depicts their daily activities and social events. They paint this art to decorate their huts. The main specialty of this artform is that they don’t use any mythological characters or any images of the deities. Mostly white colour is used which they bring out extracting the rice flour. Sometimes yellow and red dots are also used.

The origin of this art is not known exactly. But it was identified in the early 70’s. This artform has acquired a large popularity over the years and it is used in many artworks,fabric design,etc…

I have made this pot painting on Warli Art. I have given a black base and used yellow colours to depict the various activities.

I have painted women carrying firewoods from forest, the tribe playing their traditional musical instruments, a traditional hut of the warli and women who are grinding grains using a traditional mortar and pestle.