On World Tourism Day, students visited the Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum and learnt the tricks of tribal painting.
A Gond painting workshop was organized on Tuesday at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum. Notably, the Iconic Week and World Tourism Day, in collaboration with Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board, Tribal Legislature MP and Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum.
In the beginning of the programme a film based on MP Tribal Museum was shown to the students from Deccan International School, Bangalore. After this, the students visited the various galleries of the museum, photo exhibition, Chinhari Souvenir Shop and the library 'Likhandra'.
During the visit, they got to know closely the galleries of the museum and the better display and artistic combination of the oral and art tradition of the tribal community in them. In the next session, the painting workshop started with lamp lighting and welcome.
Director, Tribal Folk Arts and Language Development Academy Dharmendra Pare, Deputy Director MP Tourism Board Yuvraj Padole, senior Gond painter Padmashree Durga Bai Vyam, Deccan School teacher Sarayu Ramachandran along with other officers, employees were present.
In the workshop, the students were told about the tradition, culture, heritage, nature-environment of the state through short films and other films based on MP wild life.
Gond paintings can best be described as ‘on line work’. The artist makes sure to draw the inner as well as outer lines with as much care as possible so that the perfection of the lines has an immediate effect on the viewer. Lines are used in such a way that it conveys a sense of movement to the still images.
Dots and dashes are added to impart a greater sense of movement and increase the amount of detail.
During the workshop, Padmashree Durgabai apprised the students about the Gond painting tradition and their symbols and also taught the art of painting through paint brushes.
