Neka Art Museum
departure to a Sunday in the slow season to visit an unexpectedly ideal day museums, the famous Neka Art Museum was easy compared to the equally famous Naughty Nuri find in Sanggingan. The recommended circuit of the entire complex of seven major exhibitions or "halls" begins with the Wayang style Gemäldegalerie straight through the door to the right of the lobby.
This was the first of a series of exhibits that led my host Pande Suteja Neka me through, that any kind of art from impressionism to abstract expressionism covered. Each round presents something of a surprise -a new art school, rooms full of strong contemporary pieces, dedicated galleries Portrait, East-West art or artists from abroad
Some painters -. Native Dutchman Arie Smit and I Gusti Nyman Lempad who died at the amazing age of 1978 121 have their own pavilions. A photograph of the center pre-selected photos from American Robert A. Koke who opened Kuta first hotel and brought to Bali to surf. Recorded 1937-1941 the old black and white photos showed dancers, ceremonies and village life during Bali ephemeral time of innocence.
The galleries 320 consummate art display, of which 30% Balinese, 30% other Indonesians, and 40% foreign artists. It took 40 years Pak Neka amass his collection, which is that art students of Bali's Udayana University overarching need to study their works in order to graduate. Pak Neka opened his first gallery on the main street of Ubud in 1966. In 1975 he traveled with Rudolph Bonnet to Europe to study museums. The Neka Art Museum opened in 1976 and officially by the Indonesian government in 1982
Our tour in Pak Neka beloved Keris showroom ended acknowledged a prestigious of only two dedicated throughout Indonesia Indonesia wavybladed daggers. "My real roots as a blacksmith," he told me. "Keris in life my vocation." The pande part of its name indicating its place among a long line of metallurgists.
Blanco Renaissance Museum
I Antonio Blanco hit, wearing his trademark beret, in 1972 when a friend and I strolled through the old single-lane iron bridge in Campuan and turned the steep winding driveway on the trees enveloped. One of his daughters rice bare breasts in a corner of the courtyard was winnowing. The 60-year-old Catalan artist, an amusing and fascinating character with a theater personal style, came out from his studio to greet us. Now the modest gallery we visited about 40 years ago buried guarded in an extraordinary three-story Italian rococo structure by two huge mythological stone dragon and a 15-meter high green marble archway at the top of a long staircase.
Don Antonio Blanco, born in 1911 in Manila, arrived in 1952 in Bali, pulled by Covarrubias book Island of Bali. Within a year he had married Ni Rondji, its first model and famous Balinese dancer. He was 42, she was 17. Similarity his wife is anchored in a huge painting, titled simply "Balinese Dancer", on the back wall of the ground floor.
through a door to one side of a room filled with erotic collages and illustrated poetry full of hidden meanings. Although my guide told me the room was off-limits for children, easily sparkly collages from paper and fabric by today's standards are strange were picturesque.
A narrow staircase to the family porch led down next to the original studio of the master, received exactly as he had left it. I shook the hand of Mario Blanco, Antonio Blanco only son, a highly regarded artist in his own right. The walls are covered with family photos, some from the 1950s, recording stages in the life of several generations, and friends, other artists and VIP visitors. Mario pointed to one in which the Grand Maestro was posing with Michael Jackson.
Agung Rai Museum of Art
Not only a museum, but a dynamic Everything including cultural center of art, ARMA in Pengosekan includes exhibitions, conference hall, Art gallery, the implementation stage, dance classes, bookstore act ~~ POS = HEADCOMP, Boutique, reference library, Thai restaurant, a café and rice fields all over six hectares. Acting as a virtual ambassador of the arts began Agung Rai his career in the late 1960s, souvenirs and paintings to tourists in the ocean stalls of Kuta Beach for sale. With a keen eye for quality and a deep knowledge of Balinese painting, he built a reputation for honesty and tenacious support of local artists, including one of Bali's most successful art to become entrepreneurs.
With his earnings, Agung Rai opened his first gallery in 1978 and ARMA was opened in 1996 with 250 images in the permanent exhibition is the collection in two massive thatched roof with high ceilings Balinese-style structures is housed, a traditional art and other contemporary art.
In the 1st floor gallery are gloomy paintings already in the 1940s, which make little ambient light, the magically charged demons and spirits even darker and more threatening. Extravagant panel was devoted to these ancient relics. Down a flight of stairs to the ground floor, I Landing faced dolls with extremely rare gringsing double weft ikat cloths, Kamasan style paintings and old decorative carved wood panels facing a fearsome pair Barong.
The most compelling was the Walter Spies exhibition with 12 full-color reproductions of his paintings, photographs of his life in Europe after the First World War, and black and white still shots from the 1933 classic film Island taken demons for did the casting and choreography Spies.
The Bale Dao building in the West specializes in contemporary art, but my main interest was the marble floor "treasure" room of the museum private collection of pre-war Dutch, German and Austrian artists containing that lived and worked in Bali. Here was the only Walter Spies on Bali painting, a haunting canvas of Calonarang; a charming Covarrubias of dancers on makeup, and a 1837 oil of a Javanese nobleman and his wife of the portraitist and landscape painter Raden Saleh, recognized as the father of western style Indonesian painting.
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