We will introduce Indonesian and western artist living in Bali
EH Snellen v Vollenhoven
ARTIST or PAINTERS LIVING IN ( Ubud ) BALI
EMILE SNELLEN VAN VOLLENHOVEN
International Dutch artist living and working in Ubud. Studio and Gallery
at home.
Emile Snellen Van Vollenhoven made exhibitions around the world in New York,
Beijing,
Jogyakarta, Antwerpen, Denhaag, Groningen,
Leeuwarden, Ubud ..ect. s
For individual workshop abstract or visit the Peace of Art Studio email to:
emilesvv@hotmail.com
www.dutchartist.nl
Balinese artist paintster Emy Triani
Emy's studio is a place for studying painting and it's also my privet room for painting to anyone else
who wants to learn painting, by the unique and full of inspirations place so that you can feel comfortable
while you are painting. this location in Panestenan Ubud where this village had been created so many talented and
famous painters. I am painting and teaching too at my little studio but it so comfort for painting.
the unique style and full of colours which is raised happiness for anyone who enjoy it.
I made a website for introduce myself to the world.
Emy give also workshops- painting class in her studio.
In 2011 the tv program from Belgium " Vlaanderen vakantie land " made a reportage about Emy.
In the summer of 2012 you can see Emy in the program on tv in Belgium or when you have satelite TV on BVN.
Look into here website:
www.emytrianistudio.com
Emy Triani
Address : Penestanan Kelod, Ubud, Gianyar, Bali Indonesia
Telp : 087861138533
Email : info@emytrianistudio.com
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Famous Painters of Bali - History of the painters art in Bali.
The development of this village Ubud had begun, In year 1920's, with the arrival two European artist people
that are Rodolf Bonnet from Dutch and Walter Spies from Germany inscribe the new history of artistic growth
paint the countryside of Ubud. Second, the European artist introduce the European esthetics technique especially
illumination area, shadow, perspective and anatomy. All local artists permeate the new technique matching with
value and base on local mind fixed take the traditional so that able to give the separate identity by the name
Ubud. Ubud Village progressively famous as a born area of all painters because the existence of the cooperation
between Tjokorda Gede Agung Sukawati and Rudolf Bonnet to form the Pita Maha. Pita Maha represent a place
to discuss the artistic growth and problem paint, and also to compare mind to each other and introducing
result of art which they own. Ubud known ass central of art.
I Gusti Nyoman Lempad
Born: Bedulu village 1865 Lempad is a legendary painter, wood carver and architect
of Bali. He build cremation towers and temples.
On painting, his early work
is color paintings, later developed to black and white.
He was already married when the Krakatau erupted in 1883. So on his departure
on April 25, 1978, he is in his 113.
He departed in the same month as his
old friend Rudolf Bonnet and in the same year as Cokorda Gde Agung Sukawati.
The all three are the founders of the artists association that hold an important
part on the history of
artists development in Bali, the Pita Maha in 1932.
To see his painting,
visit his house in Ubud, around 100 meters east of the market, also in Puri
Lukisan Museum, Neka Museum Ubud,
Art Center Denpasar, Tropen Museum Amsterdam,
Rijkmuseum voor Volkenkunde Leiden, Museum fur Volkenkunda, Basel Germany.
W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp
Born: Holland 1874 Came to Bali in 1904, became the first western artist who
visit the island of Bali.
He made some drawings and learned the Balinese way
of life before went back to Holland because of his ill.
In 1906 he came back
to Bali until 1907, in which he became a witness of the Puputan Badung war
and massacre in 1906.
He produced the first comprehensive book about Bali.
He departed in 1950.
Roland Strasser
Born: Vienna, Austria 1895 He left for Indonesia in 1920. After traveling
to some other countries including Mongolia
and Tibet, he returned to Bali
in around 1934. He lived in cold mountainous area of Kintamani for around
ten years,
and left Bali because of war in 1944. He died in the United States
in 1974.
His painting can be found in ARMA, Ubud.
Walter Spies
Born: Moscow, Russia 1895 A son of German diplomat in Moscow, he was already
well known in Europe as a painter in 1923.
First visiting Bali from Java in
1925, he made permanent move in the middle of 1927.
He is a multi talented
artist, as a painter he had created many great pictures of Bali, as a musician
he was the first to
recognize Balinese music and to record them. In the thirties
he gave the Balinese an inspiration to create - based on the
older tradition
- the new dance form called Kecak.
Together with Rudolf Bonnet, I Gusti Nyoman Lempad and Cokorda Gde Agung Sukawati
established
artists community Pita Maha, in 1932. Walter Spies facing a tragic
death in 1942 when with other German
civilian internees in World War II sailing
from Padang in Sumatra island to Sri Lanka, the ship was bombed
by a Japanese
war plane and sank near Nias island. He is amongst them who were missing.
We can see his painting
reproductions at ARMA, Neka Museum Ubud. His original paintings can be found
at Stadtisches Museum, Dresden (before Bali period), and many private collectors.
Rudolf Bonnet
Born: Amsterdam, Holland 1895 He lived in Italy and North Africa before he
came to Bali in 1929. Together with Walter Spies,
I Gusti Nyoman Lempad and
Cokorda Gde Agung Sukawati established artists community
Pita Maha, in 1932.
In 1953 he designed the building and garden of Puri Lukisan Museum in Ubud.
He died in Holland in 1978. Before he died he made a request to send his ashes
to Bali. In 1979 his ashes were cremated in Bali,
together with the cremation
of his old friend Cokorda Gde Agung Sukawati, and then ceremoniously thrown
into the sea.
His paintings displayed at Agung Rai Museum of Art (ARMA) and Neka Museum Ubud.
Adrien Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres
Born: Brussels, Belgium 1880 Arrived un Bali in 1932. Lived in Sanur in South
Bali, he married Balinese legong
dancer Ni Polok, who then became his prominent
model. He died in Brussels in 1958.
His paintings can be found in his museum on the left (if we are facing the
sea) of Grand Bali Beach
hotel in Sanur, also at ARMA Ubud.
Louise Garrett Koke
Born: USA 1897 Arrived in Bali in 1936 as a young lady with her future husband
Robert Koke. Currently she is well known
more because of her and her husbands
activity to build the first hotel in Kuta Beach, and latter published
a book
on the account titled 'Our Hotel In Bali'.
They had visited China and Japan and planned to continue their journey to
India and Europe after a
'two restful months' in Bali. What happened was that
they were in Bali for five years, and they only left the island
because of
the Japanese sweeping through southeast Asia in the World War II. Louise died
in 1993 in the US,
her ashes thrown to Kuta waters by her husband Robert as
her previous wish.
Her drawings can be seen at Neka Museum Ubud.
W.G. Hofker
Born: Amsterdam, Holland 1902 He was in Bali from 1938 to 1944. Most of Hofker
works done on this period.
His paintings are very refined and smooth, also
very poetic. He painted villages, temples and religious life of the island,
and especially has focus on the people of Bali. He died in 1981.
His paintings displayed at ARMA and Neka Museum Ubud.
Miguel Covarrubias
Born: Mexico City 1904 He came to Bali in 1930. In 1937 his book 'Island of
Bali' published for the first time and become classic.
He also made sketches
and paintings about Bali, some of them is for the illustrations of his book.
He died in 1957 after for several years he was Professor of Art History in
the National School of Anthropology in Mexico.
His paintings displayed at Neka Museum Ubud.
Theo Meier
Born: Basel, Switzerland 1908 Arrived in 1936, he lived in Bali for 20 years.
Lived in Thailand with his
Thai wife from 1961. He died in Switzerland in
1982.
His paintings displayed at ARMA and Neka Museum Ubud.
Ida Bagus Made
Born: Tebesaya, Ubud 1915 Known as Ida Bagus Made Poleng. He was taught by
his father, also an artist (1897 - 1952)
who receive a Silver Medal on 1937
World Exhibition in Paris. But he regarded himself as a disciple of Rudolf
Bonnet.
In 1947 a painting of his was purchased for the Museum of Modern art in New
York. He is very cautious when
someone want to buy his paintings. He have
to make sure that the painting is not to be bought by a gallery, since he
is
opposed to the idea of 'art business'. He died in Ubud in 1999.
To see his painting,
visit ARMA, Puri Lukisan and Neka Museum Ubud.
Donald Friend
Born: Sydney, Australia 1915 He is in Bali from 1966 to 1980.
His painting displayed at ARMA and Neka Museum Ubud.
Arie Smith
Born: Zaandam, Holland 1916 Living in Bali from 1956 until today (2000). He
formed artists community in Pengosekan
village near Ubud known as 'Young Artist'.
His paintings have simple or naive forms. This style probably influenced the
Young Artist members. Their paintings are
often naive but strong in colors.
They used unusual color for the objects, such as red for the sea, blue for
the skin,
yellow for the sky, etc.His works displayed at ARMA, Neka Museum
in Ubud and Penang Museum, Malaysia.
Anak Agung Gede Sobrat
Born: Ubud 1909 His great skill in drawing attracted the attention of Walter
Spies and Rudolf Bonnet who request him to
modernize his work while preserving
the tradition. He is regarded as one of the first artists to develop modern
Balinese paintings. He taught at the ASRI (Academy of Fine Arts) in Yogyakarta
in Java from 1957 to 1959.
His works featured in Sono Budaya Yogyakarta, also in Puri Lukisan Museum,
Neka Museum Ubud, Tropen
Museum Amsterdam, Rijkmuseum voor Volkenkunde Leiden.
I Gusti Ketut Kobot
Born: Pengosekan 1917 He is a member of Pita Maha and the Ubud Painters Group.
His works displayed at ARMA and Neka Museum Ubud.
Han Snel
Born: Scheveningen, Holland 1925 In Bali since 1950 until his departure in
Ubud in 1998. Married a Balinese wife.
His work sometimes graphical such as
featuring lots of rounds or half circles in the paintings.
His paintings displayed at his gallery on Jalan Kajeng and Neka Museum, Ubud.
Antonio Maria Blanco
Born: Manila, Philippines 1926 He has a Catalan (of Spain) ancestry. Came
to Bali in 1952. Lived in Bali with his Balinese
wife Ni Ronji, a legong dancer
who also became his model for some of his paintings. He love to paint women
in their exotic postures.
Blanco build a permanent studio and exhibition rooms
above Campuan river where he displays his works and lived
with his wife and
four children. He died and cremated in Bali at the end of 1999. His painting
can be found at his
own studio, ARMA and Neka Museum, Ubud.
Kay It Tanaya
Born: Tabanan, Bali 1938 Started painting as autodidact in 1958. He is influenced
by arts surrounding his birth place,
including balinese carvings, statues,
etc. Later he developed terra-cotta figures, batik style paintings as
well
as other style of paintings.
He held exhibition in Surabaya, Jakarta, Melbourne and Canberra. He departed
in Bali in 1977.
His work can be found at Art Center Denpasar, ARMA and Neka and Puri Lukisan
Museum Ubud.
Anton H.
Born: Bandung, Java 1935 Moved to Bali after 1969. His paintings sometimes
look like mosaic and featuring
Balinese arts. He departed in 1984 in Bandung,
and his ashes thrown to the sea of Sanur.
Visit Neka Museum in Ubud to see his paintings.
I Dewa Nyoman Batuan
Born: Pengosekan 1942 He often paint religious or magical aspect of Bali and
Hindu Dharma. With other young artists
he founded the Pengosekan Community
of Artists in 1970. His exhibitions solo or in group held in Bali,
Sydney
Australia, Germany and Denmark.
His works can be found in his gallery in Pengosekan village near Ubud, ARMA
and Neka Museum Ubud.
Nyoman Gunarsa
Born: Klungkung 1944 He is one of some leading Indonesian painters. Has 2
museums himself, one in Yogyakarta, Museum
Seni Lukis Kontemporer Indonesia
for contemporary art and one in his village, Banda in Klungkung,
Museum Seni
Lukis Klasik Bali for classical art.
Gunarsa's paintings are based on Balinese folklore, Hindu Dharma legend and
arts. But his painting styles are uniquely his.
He has exhibited in Bali,
Jakarta, Europe and some other countries.
His works can be found in his museums, at ARMA and Neka Museum Ubud.
Made Wianta
Born: Apuan, Tabanan 1949 He is also a Balinese dancer and musician. Formally
studied art at
SSRI ( School of Fine Arts) in Denpasar and at ASRI (Academy
of Fine Arts) in Yogyakarta in Java. But he is a freedom soul
who learn from
his own intuition and will. He lived and worked from 1975 to 1977 in Brussels.
His painting is decorative,
toward abstract yet very detailed and exquisite.
He had exhibitions in Bali, other parts of Indonesia, Asia, Europe and the
United States.
His works displayed
at ARMA, Neka Museum Ubud and other places.
Nyoman
Meja
Born: Ubud 1952 He participated in group exhibition in Holland in 1975.
He
also exhibited in other area of Indonesia.
His works displayed at ARMA Ubud.
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