A new multimedia project traces the development of a Balinese painting style and its connections with Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.
A new multimedia project connects the development of a Balinese regional painting style with anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who began commissioning art in the region in the 1930s.This painting by Ida Bagus Ketut Diding, like many collected by Bateson and Mead, depicts a scene drawn from ritual life. Family members are bathing, anointing, and adorning the body of a recently deceased relative. Mourners move through these steps as part of a funerary sequence.
Ida Bagus Made Togog was an accomplished artist who, in addition to painting, decorated dancers’ costumes. He was also a ritual specialist who inscribed classical Balinese script on, manuscripts made from palm leaf. He assisted Bateson with checking the attributions of the paintings in the collection by Mead and Bateson. In one of multiple paintings he made about his dreams, Togog is calling for people to save themselves and come out from under a tree with falling dagger leaves.
I Made Tubuh studied painting as a child with his uncle, I Made Jata, for whom he also served as an artist’s apprentice. He sees the legacy of Batuan painting as evident in his stylistic and thematic choices. In this painting, the mythical Garuda—a potent symbol in Hindu, Balinese, and Indonesian national culture—has arrived in heaven, where women are bathing in a hot spring. The bird has succeeded in defeating the gods, and Vishnu has granted him the elixir of eternal life.
Mead and Bateson ultimately commissioned and collected more than 1,200 works by over 80 individuals, including novices and recognized masters in genres such as mask-making, shadow puppetry, and costumery. Their Balinese research assistant,, took notes on the works and interviewed some of the artists about their lives.
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