Buy Gond Traditional Art Canvas Painting from Indeasia Srijan for Home/Offices. Gond painting is a traditional art of Madhya Pradesh and belongs to the Gond tribe. It is mainly done in Patangarh Village in Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh and also known as patangarh gond art . Gond Tribes can also be found in pockets of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra,Chhattisgarh, and Odisha.
The Gond is the largest Adivasi Community in India. They are Dravidian and their origin can be traced to the pre-Aryan era. They refer to themselves as Koi or Koiture. Their language is related to Telugu and other Dravidian languages. The main occupation of the Gond Tribe is agriculture and daily wages.
Gond painting is a famous art of the Gond tribal community. Gond tribal art includes folk dances, folk songs, and Gond paintings from more than 1400 years ago. All the bright colours like white, blue, yellow and red are used in these paintings.These colours are extracted naturally from plant sap, leaves, coloured soil, charcoal and even cow dung. Dots, dashes, and curved lines are common designs.
Basically, the Gond paintings have evolved from Digna and Bhittichitra. In Digna, they paint a traditional geometric pattern on the walls and floors of the houses. Bhittichitra painting includes images of animals, birds and trees. The paintings include a pattern. A pattern is a decorative design that is repeated several times to fill an image.
The Gonds believe that viewing good images brought in good luck. The nature detailed with repeating patterns are the most recognizable feature of Gond art. Traditional motifs, tattoos, and images in the painting give a vibrant look and brings all prosperity and wealth to home.
The Gond painting is eco-friendly because the vibrant colours for the painting come from cow dung, charcoal, coloured soil, and leaves, the art is completely sustainable.
Consisting of nature in the painting portrays the idea of biodiversity.
The paintings are based on the theme of jungle. All themes talk about the beauty of nature.
In these paintings, sceneries with animals, Jungle, village, birds, fishes Folk dance and culture can be seen. Each theme creates a different repeated pattern. Each Gond artisrt uses his own typical patterns to fill the image. These typical patterns are called signature patterns. These paintings are made by using various patterns such as dots, fine lines, curved lines, dashes, fish scales, drop of water, seed shapes and geometrical shapes etc. Gond Artists includes folk dance, folk songs, various festivals, ceremonies and rituals. The tribe believes that seeing a good image brings good luck to their lives. They show festivals such as Diwali, Karwa Chauth, Nag Panchami, birth, marriage etc in their paintings.
A large range of themes and motifs are available in these paintings. Paintings depict the following themes and motifs :-
- Pictures of animals like peacocks, birds, crabs, mythical beasts, lizards, lions, tigers, deer, snakes, wild boars, cows, monkeys, elephants, horses, fish, etc.
- Mahua Tree as they believe this Tree of Life. They use Mahua flowers, fruits, seeds, and leaves for many purposes.
- Myths, legends, and aspects of the daily life of Gond people.
- Hindu gods such as Lord Shiva, Lord Krishna, Lord Ganesha, etc.
- Local deities like Phulvari Devi (Goddess Kali), Jalharin Devi (River Goddess), Marahi Devi, etc.
- Folktales.
- Modern design such as airplanes, bicycles, cars, technology, etc.
Although, this is an old art form where the central theme is nature. Gond artists portray nature in various ways in Gond paintings because they believe that the life of man and nature are interlinked. Now a days a contemporary touch on canvas with acrylic paints, makes the paintings easily available for aesthetes. The unique collections of Handmade Gond paintings created by one of such Gond Artist is available at Indeasia Srijan. These painting are such a nice gift for House warming and festivals.
Process of painting:
Gond paintings can be described as ‘on line work’. It is created out of carefully drawn lines. Lines are used in such a way to convey a sense of movement to still images. Dots and dashes are added to impart a greater sense of movement and increase the amount of detailing. Another very striking fact of Gond paintings is the use of all bright vivid colours.
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