Warli style of painting or Pata Chitras

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About Warli style of Painting

• Warli painting is a style of tribal art mostly created by the people from the North Sahyadri Range in Maharashtra. 
• The Warli culture is centered on the concept of nature and its elements are often focal points depicted in the painting. 
• These rudimentary wall paintings use a set of basic geometric shapes: a circle, a triangle, and a square for depiction.
• Their paintings were monosyllabic. 
• 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. 
• The Warli culture is centered on the concept of Mother Nature and elements of nature are often focal points depicted in Warli painting. 
• Warli artists use their clay huts as the backdrop for their paintings, similar to how ancient people used cave walls as their canvases

Warli Tribes

• The Warli or Varli are an indigenous tribe (Adivasi) of western India, living in mountainous as well as coastal areas along the Maharashtra-Gujarat border and surrounding areas. 
• They have their own animistic beliefs, life, customs and traditions, and as a result of acculturation they have adopted many Hindu beliefs.
• The Warli speak the unwritten Varli language which belongs to the southern zone of the Indo-Aryan languages.
• The Warli tribe is one of the largest in India, located outside of Mumbai. 
• Despite being close to one of the largest cities in India, the Warli reject much of contemporary culture.
• The Warli were traditionally semi-nomadic. 
• They lived together in small-scale groups with a headman leading them. 
• However, recent demographic changes have transformed the Warli today into mainly agriculturists. They cultivate many crops like rice and wheat.  

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