Tag: Art, Culture, Lifestyle, Melissa Lin
Finding Art in Malaysia
One of my favourite ways to peer into the heart of a country is by getting to know it through the eye of its artists. Through the visual arts I learn by feeling and...
Inventing Art: The Painting of Batuan Bali
By: Bruce Granquist “In 1932, a few young men from the village of Batuan in Bali tried their hand at painting pictures on paper for the first time. As a result of this...
Book on Dutch Painter Auke Sonnega
Artist of the Enchanting Tropics The Dutch artist, Auke Sonnega, arrived in Batavia in 1935 and during a 23-year sojourn painted on the island of Java, Bali, and...
Illusion by Ng Swan Ti
An intimate photo book of journeys, personal moments and the silences in which the photographer struggled to understand her reality and illusion, both in photography and...
Book on Balinese artist Lempad
I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, who died in 1978, is an acknowledged icon of Balinese art with a reputation that is unsurpassed. Considered one of the first modern Balinese...
Le Dac Trung’s paintings
Le Dac Trung's paintings are worthy of notice not only because they are the kind that can appease any art critic's discriminating taste, but because they are humbly...
Book on Painter Theo Meier
Among the foreign artists finding solace and inspiration in the tranquility and spirituality of Bali, Theo Meier takes a special place. He spent 20 years of his life in...
Raden Saleh The Beginning of Modern Indonesian Painting
An artist’s work must be viewed in the context of his or her time and intellectual environment. The book attempts to describe Raden Saleh’s life against the...
Between science, art and social design there is community
Andreas Siagian is a cross-disciplinary artist with an engineering background focusing on creative communities, alternative education, DIY (Do it Yourself) and DIWO (Do...
Balinese Art that Bites
This friend of mine, like many others in the area, had followed the tourist boom, selling some family land and trading on the reputation of Bali as an island of artists...
