印度瓦利族壁画艺术家的坚守与复兴
High up in the Sahyadri hills of Maharashtra, a quiet revolution is taking place on mud walls. Warli mural painting is one of India’s oldest living folk arts, with roots that go back more than 2,500 years. Its simple, powerful images—circles, triangles, and stick figures dancing in a ring—tell stories of harvests, weddings, and the daily life of the Warli tribe. Yet today, only a few hundred families still practice the craft, and many of them fear that the tradition may fade with the next generation.
The painting process is both ritualistic and deeply personal. Artists use a bamboo stick chewed to a brush-like tip and apply a paste made from rice flour and water on cow-dung-and-mud walls. The colour is stark white on a dark brown background, creating an effect that is at once ancient and modern. Traditionally, it is the village women who carry the knowledge, taught by their mothers and grandmothers in the quiet hours after the evening meal.
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