Kamasan
Kamasan is a village on Bali, Indonesia. It is reknown for a style of painting named after it and has a cultural importance on a Bali-wide level.
Situation[edit]
Kamasan is located just next to Semarapura (north-west) and to Gelgel (south), in the Klungkung regency, between the south-east coast and the mountain range of Gunung Agung. Denpasar is 31 km south-west.[1]
Administratively, it is part of Gelgel territory.[2]
Population[edit]
In 2014 its population was about 4,000 people.[2]
Painting: Kamasan wayang style[edit]
The various 'traditional' styles of painting on modern Bali are derived from the "Kamasan wayang style", or Kamasan shadow puppet painting, which in turn takes it patterns from ancient Java.[3]
Kamasan wayang painting is a 2-dimensional painting depicting shadow puppet performances.[4] It has been listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage (WBTB) in 2015 by the Indonesian Government.[5] It was proposed to Unesco for registration as Intangible cultural heritage in 2018 and 2022.[4]
Historically, artists from Kamasan were used by the many raja courts that existed on Bali up to the early twentieth century.[3] For some, their reknown came with the emergence of the kingdom of Klungkung and its palace, which replaced the kingdom of Gelgel at the end of the 17th century;[6] for others, this reknown started earlier, in the 16th century.[7] However, the name of Kamasan is mentioned as early as 1072 AD (Saka year 994), during the reign of Bali king Anak Wungsu.[4]
Other arts[edit]
The village also provided gold- and silversmiths, dancers, musicians and puppeteers. The painters have a particular ward in Kamasan, the Banjar Sangging. The smiths are located in another ward, the Banjar Pande Mas.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Kamasan, map". openstreetmap.org.
- ^ a b Campbell 2014.
- ^ a b c Eric Oey, Bali, Island of the Gods. Singapore: Periplus 1990, p. 169.
- ^ a b c Ariani, Ni Made (2022). "Classical Painting of Wayang Kamasan to be UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage". Bali Tourism Journal. 6 (1, January–April): 17–20. doi:10.36675/btj.v6i1.74. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
- ^ Hartanto, Arief; Atmadiredja, Genardi (2024). "The Inheritance of Skill and Knowledge of Kamasan Painting as Part of Culture Preservation". Proceeding of The International Conference on Multidisciplinary Studies (ICOMSI): 39–48. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
- ^ Widari, Ni Putu Eka (2021). "Jargons Used by Wayang Kamasan Painter Community". Linguistics Initiative. 1 (2): 110–120. Retrieved 2024-05-10. See p. 112.
- ^ Ariani 2022, p. 18.
See also[edit]
Wikipedia articles[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- Campbell, Siobhan (October 2011). "Global Kamasan". Jurnal Kajian Bali. 1 (2): 1–33. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
- Campbell, Siobhan (2014). "Kamasan Art in Museum Collections. 'Entangled' Histories of Art Collecting in Bali". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 170: 250–280. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
- Supir, Ketut; Sadia, I Wayan; Muderawan, I Wayan (July 2019). "Uang Kepeng in the Globalization Era: Industrialization at Kamasan Village, Klungkung, Bali". Jurnal bisnis dan kewirausahaan. 15 (2). Retrieved 2024-05-10.
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