Balinese Children's Drawings
- Title
- Balinese Children's Drawings
- Original language
- English
- Author(s)
- Illustrator(s)
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- ISBN
- —
- Publication date
- 1970
- Subjects
- Art
- children
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This paper was originally prepared for the Cultural Congress organized by the Java Instituut, the first conference to bring together in Bali scholars from other specialized areas of Indonesia. The congress was held in October, 1937. The paper was published in Djawa, XVII, Nos. 5-6 (1937), 248—59. Later it was reedited for a Western audience and published in Margaret Mead and Martha Wolfenstein, eds., Childhood in Contemporary Cultures (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1955), pp. 52-69. BALINESE ART has a style and a character of its own. The artists are numerous and prolific, distinguished by the patience and efficiency of their craftsmanship and by their extreme faithfulness to an artistic tradition. Unlike Western artists, they seem to try to produce works conforming as nearly as possible to the patterns used by their fellow-artists. Any individuality in the artist is not stressed, as it is with us, but rather the contrary. If any works which show an unusual vision, a touch of originality, are produced, it would seem that they have come about through the agency of an artist's particular gifts, not by intention, but, as it were, in spite of his effort to make them like everyone else's. In all the aspects of the plastic arts in Bali, in painting, in sculpture, in the design of the puppets of the shadow play and the carving of masks, the similarity to a traditional form is strikingly apparent.
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