Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Images of India - 103

A glimpse of India in black and white. This is a picture of Warli painting. They are folk paintings from Maharashtra and are very different from other folk and tribal paintings in India.


20 comments:

rupam sarma said...

Amazing painting

Cloudia said...

Human Mandala!

Namaste

ALOHA from Honolulu
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Fun60 said...

I just wonder how they managed to create such a perfect circle of identical figures.

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

I really love this pattern piece. And it certainly is different from most of what you show us.

Lucy Corrander : Photos said...

Simultaneously simple and gripping.

Dragonstar said...

Excellent photo. Very different art - I must look into it.

chai-and-chardonnay.blogspot.com said...

I have a warli painting.Love the style and the colours. Thank you for showing one here.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful.

RobertN said...

Thanks for sharing.

Annette P.-L. said...

Wonderful photo in B&W! Interesting painting!

SeaThreePeeO said...

Wonderful, great shapes.

Su-sieee! Mac said...

I went and read the Wikipedia article about warli paintings. I wonder what this painting represents.

Rajesh said...

To understand and enjoy the paintings of Warlis, one should know their religion, their rituals and see life from their perspective.

Kokila gupta said...

Warli pantings are amazing as they create a whole world with just a few geometrical shapes !

Arun Muthusamy said...

Nice one

Amit Agarwal said...

Great art!

Rakesh said...

Beautiful click, Rajesh. I stay at Panvel. Members of the Warli tribe were once invited on Panvel station by the Central Railway and they painted the entire station with such paintings. White shapes on red oxide background. I talked to one of the guys for a long time. He said that all these paintings depict mythological events. He showed me one from Ramayana, when Seeta was kidnapped by Ravan. Well, I admit, I couldn't see either Seeta or Ravana, but, I just loved the symmetry and their dedication.

Purba chakraborty said...

Such a wonderful painting :)

Unknown said...

I love warli..

Deepa Gopal said...

Beautiful Warli :)