The exhibition 'Shalaka 21' of the young painter Sher Singh Bhabor of Bhil community concluded here on Sunday at 'Likhandra Gallery' of the Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum.
Sher Singh made pictures based on many other subjects like Mahua tree and rural environment, Bhil youth dancing and dancing, date palm tree worship, marriage affair, Peepal tree worship,
As many as 26 paintings made by him were displayed in the exhibition. Talking about his paintings, Sher Singh told that he does the work of painting by taking out time with daily wages and is also making his children aware of the Bhil painting and the rituals performed in the Bhil community.
Bhil 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.
Bhil paintings usually consist of large, un-lifelike shapes of everyday characters filled in with earthy, yet bright colours, and then covered with an overlay of uniform dots in several patterns and colours that stand out strikingly against the background.
The dots on a Bhil painting are not random. They are patterns that could be made to represent anything that the artists wish to, from ancestors to deities.
