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 […]
巴厘岛卡马山绘画：历经千年而不衰的克隆孔古老艺术
“有些艺术品挂在墙上，装饰房间。卡马山的画进入房间并改变了它。在你理解它之前，你先感受它”。来自巴厘岛 Klungkung 的 Kamasan 绘画原作。这幅作品描绘了以迦楼罗为中心人物的罗摩衍那史诗。天然颜料绘制在准备好的棉布上，金箔点缀。收藏：巴厘岛艺术。[...]
