Intricate dot-and-line painting from the Gond tribal communities of central India, filling figures of animals, trees, and spirits with dense, rhythmic pattern.
मध्य प्रदेश, छत्तीसगढ़ · Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh
Traditionally painted on mud walls and floors for festivals and special occasions, Gond art builds its figures from fine repeated dots, dashes, and lines rather than solid fill, drawing on Gond cosmology and folklore in which trees, animals, and natural spirits carry equal narrative weight to human figures.
The style gained wider gallery recognition from the 1980s onward as individual master artists began painting on paper and canvas rather than only walls, and Gond art is now exhibited and collected well beyond the Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh regions it originates from.