History Of Warli Painting
This range encompasses cities such as dahanu talasari jawhar palghar mokhada and vikramgad of palghar district.
History of warli painting. Warli painting is a style of tribal art mostly created by the tribal people from the north sahyadri range in maharashtra india. Warli painting is one of the ancient indian folk art forms of art. The process of doing warli art is explained in the video.
This tribal art was originated in maharashtra where it is still practiced today. Research suggests that the tribal are the propagators of a tradition which originated sometime in the neolithic period between 2 500 bc and 3 000 bc. The warli were traditionally semi nomadic.
With the use of technology and the concept of social entrepreneurship tribals established the warli art foundation a non profit company dedicated to warli art and related activities. All these motifs have a distinct similarity to the pre historic cave paintings. There is no actual evidence of the origin of this art but it dates back to the 10th century ad.
You can see this ancient proof in the motifs of this painting. While there are no records of the exact origins of this art its roots may be traced to as early as the 10th century ad. History of warli art.
Warli paintings were not very well represented in the indian tribal art until the 1970s. Warli paintings were mainly done by the women folk. This video provides a lot of information regarding ancient indian form.
