Sumba Barkcloth Art: The Andung Motif Explained
“Most of what we sell here was born on this island. This piece was not, and I think that is exactly why people stop in front of it. It reminds...
“Most of what we sell here was born on this island. This piece was not, and I think that is exactly why people stop in front of it. It reminds...
The Arts of Bali gallery is an art gallery at Jl. Raya Seminyak No. 42, Kuta, Badung, Bali 80361, owned and curated by Putu Sucipta. It sells original Balinese paintings,...
A gebogan bali is a towering offering built from fruit, rice cakes, and flowers, stacked in a cone shape on a wooden base and carried on a woman’s head to...
Lotus in Balinese art, called padma in Sanskrit and Kawi, is far more than a decorative flower: it lends its name to Bali’s holiest shrine, sits at the center of...
Pura Ulun Danu Beratan is Bali’s water temple on the shore of Lake Beratan in the Bedugul highlands, built around 1633 by a king of the Mengwi kingdom to honor...
A Mahabharata Kamasan painting depicts scenes from the Mahabharata, the 18-book Sanskrit epic about a war between two royal families, painted in Kamasan style: flat wayang-shaped figures, natural pigments, and...
Bhoma Bali temple gates almost always carry the same fierce carved face above the lintel: bulging eyes, bared fangs, and a mouth caught mid-roar. That face has a name. Bhoma...
Kelingking Beach is the cliff-top viewpoint on Nusa Penida, an island off Bali’s southeast coast, known for a limestone headland whose silhouette is widely compared to a dinosaur’s head and...