Warli Art - 20.8"/31.2" by Master Artist Sadashiv Mhase

Title: Dancing Shiva  Warli style
Artist: Sadashiv Mhase
Year: circa 2014
Material: Handmade cloth
Colors: Local mud paste for background, acrylic

The Warli tribe resides in the Indian state Maharashtra. The word Warli comes from the word ‘Warla.’ (piece of land or field). There are a few traditional painters who reside in the villages and paint. Similar to other folk and tribal paintings, Warli paintings adorn the walls of the Warli homes as frescoes. Their earthen grain-bins and the mud-plastered walls of their homes are the canvas on which tribal people paint. The cracks in their earth coloured walls creates a textured rich surface. Today Warli paintings are drawn on paper and canvas. Traditionally the white colour was prepared by grounding rice into powder. Today, mainly white acrylic colour is used.

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