Warli is the Maharashtra Adivasi wall-painting tradition that reduced figurative art to triangles, circles and stick-arms — and made it look fresh forever. For at least 2500 years, Warli women have painted mud walls with rice-paste white pigment on red-clay ochre, depicting weddings, harvest dances around the Tarpa flute and the Palaghata mother-goddess mandala.

The aesthetic says: a human is two triangles tip-to-tip, an entire village dance can be drawn at this minimum with absolute legibility. No saturation outside the two-tone discipline. No naturalistic proportion. Just rice-paste pigment processing in concentric circles across an earth wall.