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 […]
Kamasan Painting Bali: The Ancient Art of Klungkung That Has Survived 1,000 Years
“Some art hangs on the wall and decorates a room. Kamasan painting enters a room and changes it. You feel it before you understand it.” Original Kamasan painting from Klungkung, Bali. This piece depicts the Ramayana epic with Garuda as central figure. Natural pigments on prepared cotton cloth, gold leaf accents. Collection: Arts of Bali. […]
