Towards the pasture

The painting represents the ages-long phenomenon of herdsmen and women of Rajasthani deserts migrating with their cattle, as soon as the summer set in, to areas where they had for them water and fodder. Discovering figures and forms with white against a deep monochromatic back-ground, black, maroon or other, and distinguishing one specie from the other by using any single feature, as thuds to differentiate a cow and a bull, or style of hair dressing to distinguish a man and woman, is the most characteristic feature of Warli art. The black negative space above was added on the request of Arpana Caur.