Batuan Village a famous Balinese artwork / Balinese painting such as a famous Bali tourism destination, located about 7 kilometers North of Denpasar and about 10 kilometers south of Ubud. Batuan village popular with the center of Bali arts, and now it’s known for its dancing, wood panel carving and Bali paintings Ubud. We have lots of tours to Batuan and Ubud Painters–where you will to see the beautiful traditional Art Painting.
Was restricted to ceremony aspect such as religious part, calendar and leather puppet and leather puppet (Balinese wayang), this period was before 1920 and called as Kamasan or Wayang Style. Wayang itself is two dimensional drawing that characterized an hindu-buddhism epic such as Mahabarata and Ramayana. The Paintings are used on temple or palace as ornament. They illustrated many stories about religion and Bali life. Usually it is a pieces of paintings that tell a stories. The name of kamasan style itself take from the village name where it originated. The material used in kamasan style is also traditional material from mineral and vegetables or plan resource. Also the use white bone, scoot, or stone. Bamboo used as tool to painting and the media (canvas) usually traditional canvas from wood three leaf or cloth. In 1920, there are western artist visited bali. This has change the rule on balinese art painting. An introduce of new canvas from western material, inks and paint, has change the style into modern art painting. The year has start a new way of Balinese modern art painting. More artist come to Bali has influence traditional style that was restricted to ceremony to ceremony aspect.
Batuan Village wasn’t influenced by the western as they were in Ubud. Batuan Painting were often dark, crowded representations of either legendary scenes or themes from daily life, freakish animals monsters, and witches accosted people. The Batuan village paintings were gradation of black to white ink washes laid over most of the surface, so as to create an atmosphere of darkness and gloom. In the later years, the designed covered the entire space, which often contributed to the crowded nature of these Balinese paintings.
For over a thousand years Batuan has been a village of Balinese Artwork and Bali Handicrafts. Batuan village has a thousand years old history in accordance with the recorded history-begins in A.D 1022, with an inscription that is housed in the main village temple is Pura Desa Batuan / Batuan Village Temple. In the age of Warmadewa Dynasty in Bali, Desa Batuan / Batuan Village had to be there. Batuan village eventually came to be called Batuan, from the word of Batu / Rock, because-in the time-in the region is a rocky area ( the famous Balinese sand stones are still produced here in northern of Batuan ) because of daily changes in the pronunciation then more popularly known as Batuan Village.
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