{"id":18770,"date":"2023-12-30T06:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T01:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18770"},"modified":"2025-04-05T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T07:29:05","slug":"warli-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/warli-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Warli Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Warli Paintings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a style of\u00a0tribal art created by the tribal people from the\u00a0North Sahyadri Range in Maharashtra.<\/li>\n<li>This art form can be traced back to\u00a010th century AD but was first discovered and appreciated for its distinctive style only in the early 1970s.<\/li>\n<li>It was traditionally practised by women of the\u00a0Warli tribe called Suvasinis, who decorated the Lagn Chowk or the wedding square.<\/li>\n<li>Theme:\n<ul>\n<li>Warli represents the\u00a0daily routine of rural life, the relationship of the tribal people with nature, their gods, myths, traditions, customs, and festivities.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These rudimentary wall paintings use a set of\u00a0basic geometric shapes: a circle, a triangle, and a square.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0central motif in each ritual painting is the square, known as the\u00a0&#8220;chauk&#8221; or &#8220;chaukat&#8221;, mostly of two types known as Devchauk and Lagnachauk.<\/li>\n<li>One of the central aspects depicted in many Warli paintings is\u00a0the tarpa dance. The tarpa, a trumpet-like instrument, is played in turns by different village men. Men and women entwine their hands and move in a circle around the tarpa player.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Painting technique and materials\n<ul>\n<li>First design is selected.<\/li>\n<li>Without tracing design, it is\u00a0directly drawn on paper or cloth.<\/li>\n<li>Cleverly modified bamboo sticks are used as paint brushes to create the paintings.<\/li>\n<li>The colours and materials used for the paintings are\u00a0derived from nature\u00a0like brown and orange from henna, indigo from dye, red from bricks and white from thick rice paste.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who are Warli tribes ?<\/h3>\n<p>Warli Tribes are an Adivasi indigenous tribe who live in the mountainous, coastal, and bordering regions of Gujarat and Maharashtra. The word &#8216;Warli&#8217; is derived from the word &#8216;Warla,&#8217; which means &#8216;piece of land&#8217;.The Warli people speak Varli or Warli, an Indo-Aryan language.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Delhi\/life-through-geometry-in-warli\/article67675583.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Life through geometry in Warli<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warli Paintings is a style of tribal art created by the tribal people from the North Sahyadri Range in Maharashtra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}