Tribal Family - Gond Painting

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Family means a lot. And for the tribal people, their family and respective family members is the centre of their world. Regardless of their occupation or everyday routine work, members of the clan make it a point to find a leisure time with the entire family. This emotion is very well depicted in our featured artwork Tribal Family - Gond Painting. It is yet another beautiful Gond painting created and conceptualized by most accomplished tribal Gond artists of India.
 
The painting suggests that the family members the father and the mother and their daughter meet up under a Mahua tree. They are accompanied by their lovable cow, which too seems to mix up with its owners extremely well.
 
This painting is enough to showcase the emotions and feelings of the tribal members for their family. The Tribal Family Gond Painting features a beautiful show of colours with an even effective play of intricate patterns and uniformly painted motifs. The use of vivid natural colours comes to the fore as effectively and appeals to you right at the first sight. The minuscule detailing on their bodies are beautifully taken care of.
 
About Gond Painting
 
While for some, Gond Painting is an art form, for others it is a way of living the village life with contentment and satisfaction in all that they have been bestowed with. Practiced by the Gond tribes of Madhya Pradesh, the Gond painting is one of the oldest forms of wall painting art. It was first found in the caves of Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh, one of the World Heritage Sites as declared by the UNESCO. Overtime, the clan widespread across several Indian states including Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
 
The common themes of Gond painting may range from religious festivities, activities and hobbies to marriages and supernatural entities as well. However, the main idea of the Gond painting is to symbolize the deities of the tribes in the form of trees and animals.
 
Just like other types of tribal painting, Gond portraits too make use of naturally found colours. In order to provide a rustic touch to the paintings, non-synthetic materials such as wooden coal, Chui soil, geru, sem leaves, sap of the tinsak plants and red soil is used. Soil is the main ingredient and freely available in the localities of the artists.
 
Though the painting looks easy to draw and simple to further decorate with patterns, Gond Painting has its own limitations and cannot be practiced properly unless an expert executes it.