The document discusses the Warli tribe of India and their traditional Warli art. The Warli people live in mountainous and coastal areas along the Maharashtra-Gujarat border and have their own beliefs and customs. Warli art resembles cave paintings with basic geometric shapes like circles, squares, and triangles. The painting analyzed has a tree at the center that is the focal point, with surrounding elements pointing toward it. The painting depicts much activity, with birds flying and people dancing, praying, and working. It shows creativity by using two primary colors for the background instead of the traditional single background color.

1. ART 701A ASSIGNMENT
Date 3rd
February, 2014
The Warlis or Varlis are an indigenous tribe or Adivasis, living in Mountainous as well as coastal
areas of Maharashtra-Gujarat border and surrounding areas.They have their own animistic
beliefs, life, customs and traditions,as a result of acculturation they have adopted many Hindu
beliefs. The Warlis speak an unwritten Varli language which belong to the southern zone of
the Indo-Aryan languages and the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and
Diu.
Warli art resemble cave paintings in many respects. They are mostly primitive looking and use
basic geometric shapes like square, triangle and circle. The following points can be stressed
upon in this painting:

2. 1. Focal Point – The tree at the centre is the focus of attention. It prominently projects
itself to the eyes of the viewer.
2. Directionality – Elements surrounding the focus seem to point towards the focal point.
Birds on both sides are flying towards the tree, human are facing towards the tree.
3. Activity – There is a lot of activity depicted in this painting. Birds are flying, and humans
are engaged in many different activities. Some are dancing, some seem to be praying to
the tree, some are carrying log and one of them is sitting in the house.
4. Creativity – Warli paintings normally have a background and a distinct foreground. But
this painting marks a departure from the traditional ones in the sense that the painter
has chosen to use two distinct colours for the background. Both of these are primary
colours.
Ahsen Parwez
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