Art & Culture
BALI Art and Culture
I. The Art of Bali : Bali has a variety of arts activities including dance, painting, sculpture, percussion etc.. Each has an artistic appeal and studied both in education and inherited hereditary.
1. Seni tari or DANCES : In Bali has three types of dances, including functioning as a sacred dance performances, dance performances and entertainment ceremonies and dances for entertainment for visitors.
Panyembrana Dance is a dance of welcome that is usually performed by four dancers. These dances can be held at the hotel, restaurant, etc. as a staged performance to every customer. The movement is full of graceful dancing and vibrant, making the audience chuckled admiringly.
2. Kecak Dance :
Kecak Dance is a dance that does not use the instrument only uses a dancer sounds about a hundred people who make a very strong voice and taken from the ritual dances sanghyang. Also, do not use musical instruments. Kincringan used only imposed on the feet of dancers who portray the characters Ramayana. The dancers in the circle is wearing a plaid cloth like a chessboard their waist. Besides the dancers, there were other dancers who portray the characters Ramayana as Rama, Shinta, Ravana, Hanuman, and Sugriva. The venue can be done in wantilan or other open space. 3. Barong Dance :
Barong dance can be staged every day to show the guests who come to Bali. Sacred Barong dance performed only at a ceremony in the village. This dance as a symbol of evil and the nature of good character. This dance is performed about an hour with stories where Rangda as a symbol of evil is defeated by the Barong is good.
4. Legong Dance
as a classical Balinese dance has a very complex motion tied with gambelan. The word comes from the word Legong “leg” which means a flexible dance or flexible and “gong” which means the gamelan. Gamelan is used to accompany dance called Gamelan Semar legong Pagulingan.
5. Joged Bumbung
is a very dance-friendly performance and dance are danced by a woman who later seek male partners from the audience to be invited to dance together. Usually performed in social events community in Bali, such as weddings. The dance is accompanied by musical instruments from bamboo.
6. Pendet dance
is a lot of dance exhibited worship in the temple, where worship of Hindus in Bali. This dance symbolizes the welcoming of the gods fall into the natural world. Pendet is a statement of the offering in the form of a ceremonial dance. This daughter has a dance movement pattern that is more dynamic.
2. Seni lukis or PAINTING : Historically, the art of painting is associated with images. Prehistoric relics show that since thousands of years ago, human ancestors had begun making drawings on cave walls for imaging important parts of life. A painting or drawing can be made only by using simple materials such as charcoal, chalk, or other materials. One popular technique is drawing prehistoric cave people is to put a hand on the wall of the cave, then chew menyemburnya with leaves or stone-colored minerals.
Bali painting by the Balinese have to sow at least three times a school mapping, namely the ancient times by King Bali marakata, in the 1980s by Dr. Anak Agung Made Djelantik, and by the formulation team in Bali Biennale 2004-2005.
Force mapping in question is the construction effort of thought, not only regarding the recording of a diachronic historical lines, but also regarding the construction of consciousness epistemological definitions. Until construction can also be expressed as a form of this school of thought the museum. The museum is always underlies the birth of love mentalitet on Balinese art in every period of time.
3. Seni Patung or Carving :Sculpture is the branch of the art form of three-dimensional works. Usually created by carving, modeling (eg with clay materials) or casting (in print).
II. The Culture :
Culture is a cultural activity associated with mind and reason. elements of culture are language, knowledge, technology, social organization, art, livelihood and religion. whereas the cultural values of good manners, mutual cooperation and Manners. This is done in all aspects of the Hindu community in Bali.
1. Ngaben a cremation ceremony or cremation of Hindus in Bali, Indonesia. Bodies sleeping properly placed, and the family will always think so (to sleep). There are no tears, because while the body is not there and will live or finding reinkarnasa last breaks in Moksha (freedom from the wheel of death and reincarnation). On this day, the body, placed in the body-death cases placed in the sarcophagus that resembles the ox or the temple-shaped container made of wood and paper. Form of cattle or other animal symbols taken to the cremation through a procession. The highlight is the burning of the bodies Ngaben and all other equipments.
2. Marriage is an attempt to realize the goal of life based on Dharma. A must be independent and Grhasta professionalism. This is what should be prepared by a Hindu who wanted to take marriage.
because in a marriage there are two goals that must be resolved by realizing that completely artha and kama are based on Dharma. In the preparation stage, a person who will enter the marriage in desperate need of guidance, especially to do with success or minimize the barriers that may arise. Guidance will be very good if given by an expert in the field of Hindu religion, especially concerning the duties and obligations of a grhastha, to be independent within the manifest destiny to get artha and kama based on Dharma.
3. Tooth cutting ceremony or Metatah conducted by Hindu people in Bali with the aim to eliminate the evil nature. Therefore, the above six-shaped teeth will be flattened canines. The ceremony is included in the Human Yadnya.
4. Otonan, This ceremony is performed after 210-day-old baby and six months pawukon. This ceremony aims to atone for the errors and vices earlier, so in this life achieve a more perfect life.
5. Odalan, temple ceremony is conducted in the village temple and other major temples each having a birthday of its foundation. At the ceremony all the people of the hindu work together to make offerings, penjor and other equipments. After all the preparations are completed then the appropriate ceremony on her birthday to do prayers together. Anniversary is every 210 days or six months.
III. The Balinese special day : People generally praying to the hindu temple in Bali three times in a day, every full moon and empty moon and the special days which is a big warning Hinduism.
1. Nyepi
is a Hindu holy day of the highest, which is celebrated every year. At this moment the entire Hindu community will carry four Brata Penyepian called the “Catur Brata”. The Catur Brata done is not allowed to eat and drink, can not travel, can not light a fire and can not work. Everything is done for 24 hours starting from sunrise until the next day sentence.
2. Saraswati Day
is the feast day to commemorate the celebrated science every six months or every 210 days, exactly on saniscara, Umanis, Wuku Watugunung, they celebrate Saraswati Day.
Saraswati’s name comes from “Joey” which means the flow and “wati” which means woman. Thus, Saraswati is a symbol of knowledge, the flow (or growth) is like a river and knowledge is very interesting, like a beautiful woman.
3. Galungan
holidays celebrated on Rabu umanis dungulan and Sabtu kliwon dungulan brass every six months or 210 days. As a warning to mean the victory of Dharma (truth) against Adharma (crime), as well as a thank you for all His gifts. At the ceremony all the Hindus in Bali make penjor placed in front of their homes. penjor installed along the road or the dragon symbolizes the mountain.
4. Tumpek Landep, Hindus held a ceremony in Bali Tumpek Landep which falls on Saturday once every 210 days. The festival is filled with a special ritual dedicated to the objects and technologies that are made of iron or metal. The reason, the objects provide facilities in achieving human welfare.
5. Tumpek Uduh or decline Pengatag is the day that keep Sangkara Trance safety of all the plants (trees). He maintains that the plants were fertile growth, life and avoid pest and disease, in order to provide good results and abundant, more than ever before and efficient even when used or eaten.
6. Pagerwesi falls on the day of Buddha Kliwon, day to worship God Almighty in his form as Shiva Paramesti Guru, Guru or Teacher of higher or maha maha great. Maharsi is the spread of religions throughout the world. In addition to the art of sculpture, maharsi also mentioned as a witness to the great deeds of mankind and declared on oath in court, known for its pledge Sang Hyang Chandani Day.