Paintings of Bali
Saturday, July 14th 2007
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Bali’s beauty and exoticism have naturally encouraged artists from everywhere to demonstrate their imagination and creativity.
Paintings as so other forms of arts were different in the very old days, prior to the arrival of the Dutch colonialism. The time when all aspects of life had a religious implication and were given a religious meaning. Paintings, statues, relief, masks, etc. not only had a religious use, but were designed following symbolic rules and attributed a place reflecting their religious function. The pratima statues, the visiting god’s effigy, were to be made from appropriate materials, with specific iconographic features and kept in the inner sanctuary shrines.