From cow dung to the red carpet - a tribute!
From cow dung to the red carpet - a tribute! Art and Culture,Crafts,Travel & Tourism Tribal Warli artist, Jivya Soma Mashe passed on, on May 16, 2018 leaving behind him a legacy conferred with Intellectual Property Rights; perhaps the only tribal art form with an IPR… This tribal from the Dahanu village in Maharashtra , who started painting at the tender age of seven, was blessed with the extraordinary ability of painting images from nature with a free expression. Learning the art by observation, as with most tribal artists, Jivya Soma pioneered a few practices that have transformed the way this tribal art is perceived today. While Warli painting was done only by women to commemorate a celebration, Jivya Soma was the first man to take to this art and would paint in their traditional manner on a casual basis, without any purpose or celebration. While traditional Warli paintings generally graced the ecofriendly mud walls of hutments painted with lair (mixture of soil with...