Balinese art
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Balinese art is an art of Hindu-Javanese origin that grew from the work of artisans of the Majapahit Kingdom, with their expansion to Bali in the late 14th century. From the sixteenth until the twenti
Traditional Balinese painting depicting cockfighting, by I Ketut Ginarsa.
Nineteenth-century Kamasan Palindon Painting detail - courtesy The Wovensouls Collection, Singapore
Mask Dancer, A.A. Gde Anom Sukawati (b. 1966), Acrylic on canvas
The Wheel of Life, I Ketut Murtika (b. 1952), Gouache on canvas
Walter Spies
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Walter Spies was a German primitivist painter, composer, musicologist, and curator. In 1923 he moved to Java, Indonesia. He lived in Yogyakarta and then in Ubud, Bali starting from 1927, when Indonesi
Balinese art
…In the 1920s, with the arrival of many Western artists, Bali became an artist enclave (as Tahiti was for Paul Gauguin) for avant-garde artists such as Walter Spies (German), Rudolf Bonnet (Dutch), Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur (Belgian), Arie Smit (Dutch), Theo Meier (Swiss) and Donald Friend (Australian) in more recent…
Walter Spies
Iseh at dawn
Walter Spies with Angelica Archipenko c. 1930