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(28apr08) Nyoman Gunarsa, one of the most respected and successful modern artists in Indonesia, established this museum and arts centre (admissions adult/child 10,000Rp/free; open 9am-5pm daily) near his some village. The huge three-storey building exhibits an impressive variety of older pieces, including stone- and woodcarvings, architectural, antiques, masks, ceramics and textile. Many of the classical painting are on bark paper and are some of the oldest surviving examples of this style. The top floor is devoted to Gunarsa's own work of colorful, semi abstract depictions of traditional dancers and musicians. |
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Kamasan is the centre of the classical wayang painting style, which depicts scenes inspired from traditional shadow-puppet shows, or wayang, based on the Mahabharata or Ramayana epics. Like their model puppets, the characters are painted in three-quarter profiles and angular poses, and originally used natural dyes in nuances of red, ochre, blue, green, and black. As is often the case in Bali, they are collective rather than individual creations: the main artist does the sketch, another does the panting, and others finish the fine details. |
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(30apr08)
Built in 1710, the Taman Gili (Island Garden) complex is the last remnant of the splendour of the old kingdom of Klungkung. Located in the heart of town, it houses the splendid painted ceilings of the Kerta Gosa, the Bale Kambang (floating pavilion) and the Semarapura Museum. The rest of the complex was destroyed during the puputan sacrificial war against the Dutch in 1908. |
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(Update Mey 01' 08)
Some 5km west of Klungkung, just beyond the village of Takmung on the main road to Gianyar, the Gunarsa Museum Of Classical and Modern Art (daily 9am-5pm; Rp10.000), formerly known as Museum Seni Lukis Klasik Bali, is reached on any westbound transport from Klungkung. Get out when you see the massive Trimurti statue with mock policemen at the base. |
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(Update Mey 01 '08)
Gelgel is home to a Muslim community, one of the three communities established on Bali at the time of the Majapahit rule over the island. It's believed that Muslim missionaries who came to Bali to convert the people failed, and were too ashamed to go home, so the dewa agung allowed them to stay. Legend tells that the dewa agung's main objection to Islam was circumcision. The missionaries explained that the bamboo knife used was very sharp. The dewa agung demanded to see the knife, tried to cut his fingernail and failed. He then tried to cut the hairs on his arm and failed. Refusing to allow the knife near any other parts of his anatomy, he gave it back and declared that he and Bali would remain Hindu. |
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Three kilometres east of Kusamba is the Pura Goa Lawah (Bat Cave Temple; admission 3000Rp, car park 1000Rp, sash rental 1000Rp; open daily), which is one of nine directional temples on Bali. The cave in the cliff face is packed, crammed and jammed full of bats, and the complex is equally way overcrowded with tour groups. |
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