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“EVERY CANVAS IS A JOURNEY ALL ON IT’S OWN”

- HELEN FRANKENTHALER

At the beginning of the lockdown, the pandemic we all were lost and con-

fused and didn’t know what tomorrow held for us let alone the distant fu-
ture. We held our family and loved ones close to us.

During those difficult times, as an individual different things came to our
rescue. For me it was artwork. Hadn’t touched anything for years though

but it all came back as a smooth flow. Started a simple doodle......continued
with a series of various folk arts from different parts of India......

Let me introduce you one folk art at a time......

‘WARLI ART’

A form of tribal art mostly created by the tribal peo-

ple from the North Sahyadri Range in Maharashtra,
India. Originally the technique used to create this art

is also as simple as the art itself, earthly and sooth-

ing. A bamboo stick is used as paint brush, a paint-

ed red-ochre background acts as a canvass. Only
white color, consisting of rice paste with gum is

used for painting.

This art carry on a tradition stretching back to 2

500 or 3 000 BC. Their mural paintings are similar

to those done between 500 and 10 000 BC in the Rock Shelters of Bhim-
betka, in Madhya Pradesh. Their extremely rudimentary wall paintings use a

very basic graphic vocabulary: a circle, a triangle and a square. The circle

and triangle come from their observation of nature, the circle representing
the sun and the moon, the triangle derived from mountains and pointed

trees. Only the square seems to obey a different logic and seems to be a

human invention, indicating a sacred enclosure or a piece of land.

I used colored chart, white ink pens and our correction pens. Let me take

you through steps of the creation and completion of a Warli art.....

DIMPLE PRABODH

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