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Jivya Soma Mashe (1934–2018)

Dahanu-Palghar Warli Adivasi visionary who transformed seasonal women's rice-paste marriage murals into continuous forest-and-tarpa narratives.

Warli Adivasi painter Jivya Soma Mashe

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Warli Adivasi painter Jivya Soma Mashe
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Working in Ganjad village of Dahanu taluka, Palghar district, Maharashtra, Jivya Soma Mashe extended sacred lagna chauk wedding-square wall geometry—built from triangles, circles, and squares in pounded white rice paste over ochre and cow-dung wash—onto permanent cloth and paper surfaces. 1

His spiraling tarpa harvest-dance circles, ant-hill ecosystems, and village parables earned India's National Award for Tribal Art (1976), the Netherlands' Prince Claus Award (2002), and the Padma Shri (2011). 1

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Warli Adivasi Rice-Paste Mural Painting
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The Painted World of the WarlisLalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1985—
"Jivya Soma Mashe (1934–2018)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/jivya-soma-mashe · CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jivya Soma Mashe (1934–2018) — folkroom