Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to South Africa for the BRICS Summit gifted Gond paintings to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Gond paintings are one of the most admired tribal art form.
The word ‘Gond’ comes from the Dravidian expression ‘Kond’ which means ‘green mountain’. These paintings, created by dots and lines, have been a part of pictorial art on walls and floors of Gonds and it is done with the construction and re-construction of each and every house, with locally available natural colours and materials like charcoal, coloured soil, plant sap, leaves, cow dung, lime stone powder, etc.
