Balinese art is art of Hindu-Javanese origin that grew from the work of artisans of the Majapahit Kingdom, with their expansion to Bali
in the late 13th century. From the sixteenth until the twentieth
centuries, the village of Kamasan, Klungkung (East Bali), was the centre
of classical Balinese art. During the first part of the twentieth
century, new varieties of Balinese art developed. Since the late
twentieth century, Ubud and its neighboring villages established a reputation as the center of Balinese art. Ubud and Batuan are known for their paintings, Mas for their woodcarvings, Celuk for gold and silver smiths, and Batubulan for their stone carvings. Covarrubias[1]
describes Balinese art as, "... a highly developed, although informal
Baroque folk art that combines the peasant liveliness with the
refinement of classicism of Hinduistic Java, but free of the
conservative prejudice and with a new vitality fired by the exuberance
of the demonic spirit of the tropical primitive". Eiseman correctly
pointed out that Balinese art is actually carved, painted, woven, and
prepared into objects intended for everyday use rather than as object d 'art.[2]
