Gond Painting
Why in news ?
Recently, the famous Gond painting of Madhya Pradesh has received the prestigious Geographical Indication (GI) tag.
About Gond Painting:
- It is a famous folk art of the Gond tribal community of central India.
- It is done to preserve and communicate the culture of the Gond tribal community.
- Themes: Gond tribes are highly interlinked with nature and this appears in their paintings too they include animals, mahua tree, mythological stories, Hindu gods, Local deities and folktales etc.
- Each Gond artist uses his distinctive pattern and style to fill the images these style signatures are used in collage to make a complete picture such as Dots, fine Lines, Curved Lines, Dashes Fish Scales etc.
Key facts about Gond Tribe
- The Gonds are the largest Adivasi Community in India and can be traced to the pre-Aryan era.
- The word Gond comes from Kond, which means green mountains.
- They are a heterogeneous group spreading over large areas from the Godavari gorges in the south to the Vindhya Mountains in the north.
- They live in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and Odisha.
- The majority speak various mutually unintelligible dialects of Gondi.
Source – The Hindu
