Vintage Balinese Painting: Antique or New Vintage-Style? A Buyer’s Guide
A vintage Balinese painting can mean two very different things: a genuinely old painting, usually from the 1930s through the 1970s, sold through auction houses and specialist antique dealers, or a new painting made today using the same classical technique and antique-inspired look, most often the Kamasan wayang style or a deliberately aged, sepia-toned palette-knife […]
Kamasan Ganesha Painting: Bali’s Elephant God in Two Sacred Techniques
A Kamasan Ganesha painting depicts the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha using the classical wayang-style technique of Kamasan village, Klungkung — flat profile figures, natural pigments, and gold leaf, following the same visual rules used for Bali’s epic paintings. At Arts of Bali, the subject also exists in a second, contemporary form: a sand-texture relief painting […]
Lukisan Kamasan Bali: Seni Kuno Klungkung yang Telah Bertahan Selama 1.000 Tahun
“Beberapa karya seni tergantung di dinding dan menghiasi sebuah ruangan. Lukisan Kamasan memasuki sebuah ruangan dan mengubahnya. Anda akan merasakannya sebelum memahaminya.” Lukisan Kamasan asli dari Klungkung, Bali. Karya ini menggambarkan epos Ramayana dengan Garuda sebagai tokoh sentral. Pigmen alami pada kain katun yang telah disiapkan, dengan aksen daun emas. Koleksi: Kesenian Bali. [...]
