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Balinese Clasical Paintings

Paintings Is One Of The Most Famouse Balinese Art Form

Before foreign painters came to Bali in the 1920 and 1930s, paintings were rigidly one dimensional, but western influence brought a flowering of representational art, often of typical village scenes, flowers or animal.

Examples of both classical mostly calendars and of the Penestanan and Pengosekan representational style are found in many shops that offer painting. There are many art studios around Ubud and in the villages of Batuan, Bedulu, Kamasan and Kerambitan, there is such an explosion of interest in Balinese art that visitors may find it difficult to find work of true quality.

If you are just looking something charming to remind you of your visit to Bali, you’ll find it in one of the hundred of tourist shops which sell paintings. However if you want to find work of real talent, then the up market galleries found in Ubud and in the shopping malls attached to 5 star hotels would be a good place to start.

Galleries include the Tama Gallery, the Komaneka Gallery on Jalan Monkey Forest in central Ubud, and Agung Rai Gallery in Ubud suburb of Peliatan.

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