ordinary foks in their daily lives is one of the
themes that makes art and recorder of
culture and history.
The artists spent months almost meditatively focused on their pieces
to create what seemed like and impossibility yet the finished products
becomes a masterpiece.
Most landscape painters have made and effort to capture scenes that has a
spell binding moment in the psyche. The mind captures these images like the lenses of the camera and etched it into the subconcious. When reproducing the scene the artist evokes the subconcious through a meditative state of concentration and transfers the image onto the canvass.
What struck me most of the Artworks I came upon in my travels in Central and east java was the fact that they numerous! It seemd l;ike there is an artist lurking at every corner of the street and most of these are no ordinary painters of sculptors. The styles and techniques are no much different from those found anywhere around the world, acrylic being the most common media and oil being then medium of choice for those who can afford it. Water colors are not so common strangely enough and printmaking was almost rare to come by.
It was the theme of the works that made Javanese painters more distinguished from others artists from around the world especially those from Bali. The Hindu theme with all the colorful deities and demonic characters, never failed to capture my attention. The characters adapted from the epic Hindu stories of Ramayana and Mahabarata, the barong and the Kacak themes found their ways into the expression on canvass. Art, myth and magic seemed to walk hand in hand in Balinese art.
The everyday life of the people which was as equally colorful found great expressions in many masterpieces that I came upon hanging in the galleries in Ubud and Jogjyakarta but most distinguished is the display of wooden sculptues and wood carvings that was a thrill to behold as it this medium of expression the artist has to be able to put form into lines and designs and accurately manifest a piece of finished work. The choice of wood, the choice of subject and the choice of setting all play an equally important role in order that a sculpture can come to life. Painters can paint and depict a scene with lines and colors but a sculptor has to work from a block of wood and chip out a form as he progresses towards the center of the block and
his design and drawing is in his mind expressed through his feeling of the b
lock of wood.
It was the theme of the works that made Javanese painters more distinguished from others artists from around the world especially those from Bali. The Hindu theme with all the colorful deities and demonic characters, never failed to capture my attention. The characters adapted from the epic Hindu stories of Ramayana and Mahabarata, the barong and the Kacak themes found their ways into the expression on canvass. Art, myth and magic seemed to walk hand in hand in Balinese art.
The everyday life of the people which was as equally colorful found great expressions in many masterpieces that I came upon hanging in the galleries in Ubud and Jogjyakarta but most distinguished is the display of wooden sculptues and wood carvings that was a thrill to behold as it this medium of expression the artist has to be able to put form into lines and designs and accurately manifest a piece of finished work. The choice of wood, the choice of subject and the choice of setting all play an equally important role in order that a sculpture can come to life. Painters can paint and depict a scene with lines and colors but a sculptor has to work from a block of wood and chip out a form as he progresses towards the center of the block and
his design and drawing is in his mind expressed through his feeling of the b
lock of wood.
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Those pieces of art are absolutely stunning. Thank you for sharing those images! :)
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