Indian Tribal Painting

Well..this is my first blog on my latest interest .No prize for guessing it though..yep the "Indian Tribal Painting".
Few months ago I happened to visit a store which sells all the materials required to make hand made cards. While I was checking out the store I happened to notice a book with Madhubani paintings on it. I browsed through the book and decided to try it so I purchased it . I had heard of the famous Madhubani paintings and was always fascinated by the colors used in it and started trying that out and having finished quite a few designs from them decided to know more about Tribal Painting. This book was the trigger that helped me get started with Indian Tribal Painting.
I started browsing the net to find out more about Madhubani and saw the Warli, Kangra and Kalamkari tribal painting as well . What interested me the most was the simple and yet classy faceless figures of Warli. Warli paintings depicts the simple day to activities like Hunting, Fishing and Farming . Celebrations like festivals and Marriages are shown in these paintings also with animals and nature. Unlike most of the tribal paintings that depicts mythological characters these are based on events in our day to day life . Suppose to be painted on mud walls by this tribe earlier Warli was always done with white paint. The white paint was a mixture of rice flour and gum . Geometric designs like circle, triangle and square dominate these paintings. The circle represents the sun or moon, the triangle represents the mountains and square the feilds used for farming. Human body are represented by two triangles upper depicting the trunk and the lower the pelvis. Men and women are differenciated by a little knot drawn on the head.

Simple yet beautiful these faceless painting do express the joy of celebrations in life .Now I really wonder if we really need eyes, hands and face to express ....Creativity to express by these faceless tribal paintings answers my question.