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 twentieth centuries, the village of Kamasan, Klungkung, was the centre of classical Balinese art. During the first part of the twentieth century, new varieties of Balinese art developed. Since the late twentieth century, Ubud and its neighboring villages established a reputation as the center of Balinese art.
Traditional Balinese painting depicting cockfighting, by I Ketut Ginarsa.
Balinese stone carvings, Ubud.
Nineteenth-century Kamasan Palindon Painting detail - courtesy The Wovensouls Collection, Singapore
Mask Dancer, A.A. Gde Anom Sukawati (b. 1966), Acrylic on canvas
Walter Spies was a Russian-born 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 Indonesia was under European colonial rule as the Dutch East Indies.
Walter Spies
Iseh at dawn
Walter Spies with Angelica Archipenko circa 1930