Welcoming Ganesha Collage

Warli style mixed media with paper and acrylic. Coffee brown background collaged with white magazine paper and acrylic paint, varnished with protective sealant. Mounted on acid free mount board with acid free mat. This is a mixed media collage in acrylic and paper on paper. This is in traditional tribal painting style of Maharashtra called Warli Painting. I have used acrylic paint for the fine details and collaged the larger details with paper. The subject is the festival of Lord Ganpati the celebrations of which last for 10 days. I was inspired to make an artwork on this festival in the Warli style after attending a workshop on Warli painting. The Warli painting art form is over 1200 years old. The tribal women folk used to decorate the walls of their mud huts coated with cow dung and mud or terracotta with designs made with ground rice paste. The subjects were usually restricted to pictorial representation of their daily activities or were of folk lore and myth. Though their paintings are two dimensional, lacking in perspective and are monochromatic, the eye is drawn in to study the detail which is used very economically. Thus the viewer is forced to read the story being told by the pictures.

Collage:Paper on Cardboard

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:14 W x 10 H x 0.5 D in

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