Festival Of Lights - Warli Painting

Festival of Lights Warli Painting is a unification of the art, heart and soul of the tribal people. Resembling the tribal life in any typical village, this painting will take you through a journey that suggests celebrations galore of the tribes. Though it may look as simple and easy, this Warli painting bears characteristics that are unique and distinctive in its own sense.
Like every other Warli painting, this one too is based on the laid-back mundane village life showcasing women and men making merry in the centre. The circular swirl suggests a crowd of village people coming together and celebrating a purpose in a unique way. Its rhythm captures the true essence of the Warli village of Maharashtra and if you look close, you will find a rural community coming back to life on a piece of canvas. The self-effacing images in white are the actual Warli figures.
Besides, aspects of a village life including pottery, hunting, dancing, masonry, harvesting and doing grocery is also shown as part of the daily routine life of the Warli tribal community.
Those who are passionate about tribal paintings and getting closer to the village life, this painting will serve the purpose. Also, it is a unique gift idea on weddings and anniversaries.

About Warli Painting

Warli Paintings are typical folk paintings of Maharashtra. Also, they are a bit different from other tribal and folk paintings in India. Unlike other forms of tribal paintings, Warli does not narrate any mythology or stories of the past, rather it resembles and makes the onlooker picture the actual village life from where this art has been originated. One can perfectly feel the vigorous sensuality and passion with which such Warli paintings are created for the pictures are highly intense and self-explaining. They mainly depict everyday activities and each painting will have various elements with wider panoramic views.

Before they were being commercialized, Warli paintings used to be extremely sacred and without drawing them, marriages or other auspicious ceremony cannot take place. Hence, Warli paintings are not just any other form of artwork, for it is printing of the naive village life and human nature on walls and doors of a village house. The stick-figures and geometrical designs filled with ample of dots and lines drawn on the mud walls of the homes of Warlis is a delight to see and feel the raw and untamed skills of the tribal community.

Today, Warli paintings have a lot of significance and people who love collecting different forms of paintings, prints and artworks, make it a point to have a piece of Warli painting with them. To adorn walls or for gifting purposes, Warli creations are the most-prized art forms not only in India but elsewhere in the world as well.