BALI Painting

Bali Traditional Painting is really typical Balinese painting
Balinese painting is unlike as European pure art but used for religious ceremony of Hindu-Bali as dedication to gods . It has been handed down as one of the traditional arts since 400 years ago. Balinese painting's origin was brought by Majapait Dynasty in late 16th century when they lost battle against Islamic Dynasty in Java. It has been used as decoration in royal palace under the influence of refined culture. Main theme is the ancient Indian epic Hindu of "Ramayana"and "Mahabarata". Balinese painting techniques handed down from those days is called Kamasan (or Wayan)style,continued to nowadays. Using five colors such as black, white, yellow, blue and brown drawn in plane on textile. Kamasan village is located in the outskirts of the dynasty Klunkun,the last dynasty of Bali,producing and developing new sensibility with high degree of perfection to this traditional style painting.
 
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