What is the traditional subject of Gond paintings in Mandla and its surrounding regions?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option 2: Animals, humans, and flora
The paintings of Gonds in Mandla and surrounding regions depict animals, humans, and flora.
Gonds of Madhya Pradesh have a rich tradition with their chiefs ruling over Central India. They worshipped nature. Paintings of Gonds of Mandla and its surrounding regions have recently been transformed into a colourful depiction of animals, humans and flora. The votive paintings are geometric drawings done on the walls of huts, portraying Krishna with his cows surrounded by gopis with pots on their heads to which young girls and boys make offerings.