{"product_id":"fishing-net-in-warli-by-krushna-sadashiv-bhusare","title":"Fishing Net in Warli by Krushna Sadashiv Bhusare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis absorbing Warli artwork by Krushna Sadashiv Bhusare turns to one of the community's essential tools of livelihood, rendering a fishing net as a great radiating circle of fine, meshed linework at the centre of the composition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWarli painting is a traditional tribal art form from Maharashtra, India, created by the Warli people of the Sahyadri hill region using a simple geometric vocabulary of circles, triangles and squares to depict daily life and the natural world. Traditionally painted with a white rice-paste mixture applied by bamboo stick onto walls prepared with red-brown mud and cow dung, the tradition covers themes ranging from gods and goddesses to harvest, fauna and the community's many rituals, with scenes of everyday labour, farming, hunting and fishing among its most enduring subjects. Krushna Sadashiv Bhusare works within this tradition, here choosing a single functional object, the fishing net, as the entire subject of the composition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the centre of the painting sits a large circle, filled edge to edge with a dense, radiating mesh of fine lines that fan outward from the middle in evenly spaced rows, crossed by concentric rings that together recreate, with remarkable precision, the woven structure of an actual net. Scattered throughout this meshed field are small marks suggestive of fish caught within its weave. This circular net sits framed within a square border filled with a contrasting, more chaotic pattern of scattered leaf and petal-like shapes in white against the dark ground, evoking the surrounding undergrowth or riverbank vegetation from which the ordered net stands in deliberate visual contrast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFishing has long been part of the subsistence life of communities across the Warli homeland's rivers and coastal reaches, and the fishing net, alongside farming tools and hunting implements, belongs to the tradition's broader repertoire of everyday objects considered worthy of depiction in their own right. Contemporary Warli artists have continued to develop this particular motif, exploring the net's woven geometry as a subject that sits naturally within the tradition's existing visual language of grids, circles and repeated linework, while also standing as a quiet tribute to the labour and skill involved in the community's traditional ways of gathering food.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy isolating the net as both subject and structuring pattern for the entire composition, this artwork demonstrates how naturally the Warli tradition's geometric vocabulary extends to the tools and labour of daily life, not only its gods and festivals. Krushna Sadashiv Bhusare's rendering turns a humble, functional object into an image of considerable formal beauty, its ordered mesh a fitting emblem of a community whose art has always found pattern and meaning in the objects of everyday survival. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Krushna Sadashiv Bhusare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50229745877206,"sku":null,"price":90000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/1498\/files\/1._Fishing_Net_in_Warli_by_Krushna_Sadashiv_Bhusare.jpg?v=1787061962","url":"https:\/\/www.memeraki.com\/products\/fishing-net-in-warli-by-krushna-sadashiv-bhusare","provider":"Memeraki Retail and Tech Pvt Ltd.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}