Warli
The Warli are an indigenous group of over 300,000 people ( Adivasis ) in the Indian state of Maharashtra , who live in an area about 150 kilometers north of Mumbai . You speak a mother tongue that does not exist in writing .
The creation myths and stories of their very old, independent local religion are transmitted both orally and in pictures. Traditionally, the Warli paintings are applied on ceremonial occasions such as weddings or harvest festivals by women using a bamboo stick and white paint made from rice paste , water and gum resin on the terracotta colored walls of their huts.
Since the Indian government took measures in the early 1970s to preserve this ephemeral traditional art (from various tribal communities), the art of the Warli has increasingly come into the public eye. The extraordinary artistic talent of Jivya Soma Mashe was quickly recognized, who is now a celebrity in India, but is still largely unknown in the West. Now equipped with modern materials, Jivya S. Mashe was the first man to paint with white acrylic paint on canvases primed with cow dung every day and without a ritual occasion . In the meantime, painting on mobile media such as canvas and paper has become a predominantly male-dominated commercial business.
Jivya Soma Mashe has both the Warli's independent sign language , which is based on the basic geometric shapes (triangle, circle and square), as well as refining and developing their motifs and themes based on independent observations. With a particularly skillful and precise execution as well as his very free, fluid style, he expresses his own view of the world and tells in his paintings both the creation myths and legends of his religion as well as everyday village life. Certain central forms and motifs are varied again and again.
The two typical traditional musical instruments of the Warli are the reed instrument tarpu , which consists of calabashes , and the stab zither ghanghli, which corresponds to a simple vina .
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- ↑ Richard Long / Jivya Soma Mashe Kunst Palast Museum, Dusseldorf, 2003. Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano, 2004. Hervé Perdriolle, curator. (Exhibition by Richard Long and Jivya Soma Mashe at the Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf, 2003)