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
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Iseh at dawn
Walter Spies with Angelica Archipenko c. 1930
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
Walter Spies
…as he became internationally known and hosted numerous anthropologists, actors, artists and other cultural figures. Spies influenced the direction of Balinese art and drama. After the outbreak of war in Europe, Spies was arrested as a German national and interned by the Dutch authorities as an enemy alien. In…
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