New Developments in Warli Art

Granthaalayah Publications and Printers, 2022

This article delineates Warli paintings and its characteristics. Warli art was first discovered in early seventies. No record found about the exact origins of this tribe and its roots. It may belong to 10th century AD., when man learn to build the walls of the house. Warli art is a vivid expression of daily and social life of the tribe named as Warli of Maharashtra. Their art is entwined with their life and rustic magic, rituals, God and goddesses, harvest seasons, marriage scenes painted on the prepared walls of their homes, later they shifted to canvas, paper, cloth etc. as per the demand. Primarily this art form is painted by women only later men also joined. It's a pure and unadulterated art form. Warli painting is simple and comprised of geometric forms and relegated the academic rules like proportions, perspective. Tarpa dance and Caukat are the most striking features of Warli art. In the early 70's Artist Bhaskar Kulakarni came to Warli tribe and taught them, how to make their paintings more substantial and influenced many contemporary artists and achieved international fame.

The Scientific Temper

Warli painting is one of the oldest art forms of India. It originated from the Warli region in Maharashtra, India. It is performed by the warli tribe from the coastal regions of Maharashtra. Our motive is to bring innovation in the art form by inculcating new ideas and methods of doing the same. One such innovative idea is to convert the traditional art form into an Indo-western form by adding new ideas from the western culture. Thereby we can bring innovation in our using this traditional art form thereby bringing innovation in the product also. The product (1) chosen is a warli painted T-shirt which will be a combination of western and Indian culture. The western garment- T- shirt will be beautified using the traditional warli paint which will give an indo-western look to the garment as whole. The product (2) chosen is warli painted kid's frock. The warli painting will be made with various new colour which is not a basic warli painting colour. It has both traditional and new w...

Journal of Mathematics and Culture, 2022

In this paper we examine mathematical aspects of traditional art from the Warli culture of western India. The corresponding symbolism of the artwork is also analyzed. Observations include that most Warli art is made almost exclusively with triangles, circles rectangles/squares, and spirals. Moreover, the spiral shape represents the cycle of life, squares are used for the depiction of weddings and represent land, circles are used to represent the sun, moon, and Earth goddess, and triangles are used in the drawing of people and other important objects. In addition, the images and scenes in Warli art exhibit the close cultural ties they have with nature. Furthermore, the intentional style of Warli paintings depicts an abstraction of simultaneous images that are comprehended as a whole. Some examples are described that could be used in classroom activities to study geometric and numerical patterns that display the cultural context of Warli artwork.

Catalogue of the Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Asia Week exhibition New York March 2016

Proceedings of Indian Art History Congress XXVIII Session, 2019, Patiala, 2020

Edited Book

The Masters of Op Art, 2020

This exhibition from the permanent collection of the Housatonic Museum of Art features works by Victor Vasarely, Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Josef Levi, and Henry Pearson. The catalogue includes a curatorial essay as well as several object labels.

Oxford Bibliographies, 2016

The collecting and study of Indian painting have been central to Ludwig Habighorst's life. A chance encounter with Indian miniatures nearly fifty years ago ignited this lifelong passion. For Habighorst, a professor of Radiology, collecting has been a creative and sensual process where he has been guided by his eye and curiosity rather than by a purely academic focus. Hence his partiality for Pahari painting and his particular interest in the visual expression of human nature with its many vicissitudes.