About warli painting

• The Warli art is based on the concept of Mother Nature and the elements of nature are often kept in focus. 
• Warli artists are known to use their clay huts as backdrops for creating these warli paintings, similar to the way prehistoric paintings were made. 
• These rudimentary paintings are made using a set of geometric shapes- a circle, a triangle, and a square.
  • The circle represents the sun and the moon. 
  • The triangle represents mountains and conical trees. 
  • The square is a human invention depicting a sacred enclosure or a piece of land. 
  • The central motif in every ritual painting is a square known as the “chauk” or “chaukat”. 
• In Warli paintings, male gods are uncommon to find and are usually related to spirits which have taken human form. 
• In warli paintings, the central motif is depicted by scenes which portray hunting, fishing and farming. Festivals and folk dances are also common scenes depicted through Warli art. 
• People and animals represented in Warli paintings are depicted by two inverse triangles joined at their tips. 
• Apart from ritualistic paintings, Warli paintings also represent various day-to-day activities performed by village members.
• Jivya Soman Mashe is known as the father of Warli art because he pulled it out of the traditional domain and popularised it beyond the Sahayadri mountains .

Warli tribe

• The Warli tribe is found in Western India across the mountain ranges and coastal regions of the Gujarat-Maharashtra border. 
• The warli paintings by tribal folks typically belong to the northern region of the Sahyadri Range. This comprises districts such as Mokhada, Talasari, Dahanu, Palghar, and Jawhar. 
• The language spoken by the Warli tribe is ‘Varli’. This language is now classified as a Konkani language. 
• Traditionally, the Warli tribe was a semi-nomadic tribe that survived by hunting. Over the last couple of decades, the tribe has now evolved to take on a wide range of agricultural activities as a source of livelihood.