Arts is very popular in Bali and has important meaning for the Balinese people. The focus of Balinese culture is art, the many form of which have been developed and studied intensively the Balinese people well as foreign students and artists.
The famous traditional dancers are classifies by some in three groups; 1) Wali, very sacred religious dances, 2) Bebali, as ritual performance, 3) Balih-Balihan, dance for entertainment.
Wood carvers, who previously concerned upon making statue for temple and decorating instruments, door ways and mask for dramatic show, are now making non-functional objects purely for touris concumption. This has had an effect on the quality in some cases, but it has also meant a renaissance in the art of carving with a whole group of new subjects being explored by the natural talented artists.
Painting has similarly undergone a rapid development as a commercial art in Bali. The traditional Kamasan style Wayang painting with their epic stories portrayedin stylized illustrations and rich brown and yellow colouring can now be found for sale all over the island. Ubud is still undisputed center for painters, with road side galleries exhibiting the brightly coloured “young artisans” style of painting showing daily life in Bali painted in rich intricate detaile. Less frequently found are the simple Wayang paintings with their delicates shaded colours. The concept individualism is still relatively foreign to Balinese artist and it is usual to find a thousand minor variations on the same subject produced by one family of artist.
Weaving is a cottage industry and the finely woven Balinese “Kamben”, called Sarongs by foreigners, can be seen growing on the handlooms in numerous place along the ubud road. Klungkung is the home of the exotic brocades, or Songket that are some times woven in silk with threads of gold and silver forming the design. In Tenganan one of the original Bali Aga (ancient Bali) in a process that takes many months, all treads being carefully dyed before the weaving to produce intricate design and patterns.
Making metal object is also a well-developed art in Bali. For centuries the Keris makers have been some of the most respecteds community members, as the weapon their produce, resplended with gold hilus and inlaid gems, are held to be a symbol of the family they belong to, heirloom, processing magical powers. Many are the skill of the Balinese smiths, from making agriculture implements to the precisiontooled part of musical instrument and the accessories of priest (bells, incensed burner, etc). Exquisite gold and silver jewellery can be seen being made the simplest of tools in the workshop of Celuk.
Everyday life nurtures a love of creative and artistic activities for the people of Bali. Offering making is real art, with the strictest attention being paid to such qualities as composition, colour and from making the hight-piled structures of exotic fruits and brightly cloured cakes, topped with performed flowers and exquisite origami-like palm-leaf structures. Every religious ceremony has its accompanying extravagance of decoration improvised from local materials. No ceremony is more dramatic than that of cremation, with is brilliantly decorated tower and sarcophagus, all designed to go up in smoke.
This transitory value, which is characteristic of much traditional art in Bali, makes it every pure form, selfless creativity dedicated to God and the community with no through of personal gain.
Literatur wa the great cultural of source of other arts. Since along time ago, Balinese valued handwriting and literally skill. Traditional work of Balinese literature were writtenin several related languages; Old Balinese, Hindu Balinese, a mixture of Balinese-Javanese, New Balinese, and Modern Balinese.
The highlight of any holiday in Baliare those incidentals “happening” which inevitably and unexpectedly occur on any trip around the island. Each corner and bend in the roads promises something new and vital to experience. Changes are good of seeing a religious procession complete with mobile gamelan orchestra, or a colourful temple ceremony, or even just the local army of ducks weddling their way in regimental fashion to their day in the paddy fields.
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