Modern Painting

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Modern painting: The period between the two world wars brought heavy changes. Balinese artists stopped painting according to rules and started to recreate their own visual experience. During the years 1933-39, the European artists Walter Spies, Rudolph Bonnet and others demonstrated to Balinese artists that painters can be free of set formulas and painting to a single stylistic convention. At the same time they allowed them to unfold individually. These Europeans also taught them the .concept of the 3rd dimension. You can still see Rouseau, who influenced Spies greatly, evident in Balinese painting. Artists are now working mostly for a European market and the tourists' demand for paintings 'suitable for framing' has again changed the technique and contents of their painting style. Full face representations are rare and profiles rarer still. Balinese painters are filled with stories and myths from childhood up and sometimes dozens of stories are happening all at once ih many of their paintings. They never lack a theme to paint about. In their paintings of jungle scenes there's elaborate, riotous decoration of leaves, flowers, and animals, with every leaf and tree carefully outlined. Mindful of Persian miniatures or of the English artist Beardsley, tiny blades of grass and insectsare found in the furthest corners of their paintings. The cost of high standard paintings, if you can find them, is roughly US$50-100 per square meter. For the usual paintings you'll often find that when you take them back to Australia, USA or Europe, the frame will cost more than the painting did. To familiarize yourself with high quality work, visit the Puri Lukisan Museum of Ubud. Many of Bali's finest painters live in and around this village.

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