Studying flute at the Oldest Museum Bali

Studying flute at the Oldest Museum Bali

HOLIDAY TRAVEL - Sound-SAUP SAUP bamboo flute sound from one room Museum Puri Paintings. Sometimes, featuring a graceful long tone, but a moment later stopped in the middle of humming.


When looked into the room, the sound of the flute was coming, a white woman seemed preoccupied with the flute. While in front of him, a man dressed in traditional Balinese give some instructions.
Yes, foreign tourists are learning Balinese bamboo flutes. Perhaps you wonder, studying bamboo flute in a museum? This is the uniqueness of the Museum Puri Paintings that are in Ubud, Bali's cultural arts center.
Foreign tourists come all the way to Ubud not just traveled for pleasure. But more than that, they want to take in and learn the culture of Bali. Ubud is known as a place to tour Balinese culture. Not to forget, the oldest museum in Bali was established in 1952, was so alive. The museum offers a variety of art activities for the tourists who visit.
Call it the start of learning the flute, Balinese gamelan, a traditional dance, to make sadjen Balinese or paint. Museum became so alive with various activities. Tracing the Museum Puri painting also provide sensation.
Museum is divided into four sections. The first is the room displaying a collection of paintings of Balinese puppets who have been there in the years before 1930. Classical paintings with the theme of the gods or the story of Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Continued into the second room are the paintings in the 1930's or before Indonesia's independence. Paintings are displayed not only scratches Balinese painters, but also some paintings are the work of foreign artists.
Then in the third room is the era of the 1940s or a modern-traditional painting. This modern era when traditional Balinese artists began to study Western art. Thus, the paintings are influenced western art, such as staining techniques or the use of materials.
However, retaining the traditional elements in his paintings, which reflect the spiritual side of the painter. While the fourth room is a room or a room for temporary exhibitions based on the theme that changes each period.
As you explore the museum, visitors are taken to the dimensions as if the past to the present. Of each painting, Balinese history stretching from the Hindu island of Bali to new entrants into the modern era. One thing is definite, customs and culture of Bali thick felt, not eroded successive days.
Tjokorda Agung
There is one corner of the room interesting temporary exhibitions. A photo showing the large size self portrait Tjokorda Gde Agung Sukawati. Tjokorda Great was born in 1910 from the Ubud Palace. His features contribute significantly to the growing tourism in Ubud, as well as its effect on the entire island of Bali tourism.
He was with his family Puri Saren Ubud dare open to foreign tourists in the 1920's. It's a rare thing, considering the period castles in Bali is still shut down. Various artists, celebrities, world figures to ever come to his place.
One of them was the artist Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet. Both later became good friends Tjokorda Court and give effect to the development of painting in Bali. Together both, they pioneer the establishment Museum Puri Paintings.
Tjokorda famous Supreme friendly and easy to get along it was arguably a powerful marketing in the world of tourism, long before Bali rapidly developed into a tourist destination. Especially when tourism in Bali at peak times. A letter from 1978 is on display at the Museum Puri Paintings can prove it.
In his letter, Tjokorda Agung wrote to a prospective guests that will stay at the Puri Saren Ubud. He wrote in detail is like a five-star hotel manager. He gave details of lodging rates in Puri Saren Ubud, car rental rates from Ubud to the tourist attractions in Bali, to important events in Ubud that might attract the interest of prospective guests.
He always taught the Balinese culture to guests, whether at meals or when taught Balinese dance. One of them is to accept the arrival of the Dutch Queen Juliana in 1972. Queen Juliana invited to eat crorot, traditional Balinese cakes, and drink coconut water.
"The coolest drink of the island," said Tjokorda Agung when handed the coconut milk to the queen, as stated in the information that is on the wall.
Tjokorda Agung of Bali's famous aristocratic closed, dare to open up to foreign tourists. From the simple hospitality, up to now the people of Ubud known open with tourists.
Do not be surprised, foreign tourists shortly after menginjakan feet in Ubud and interact with the people of Ubud, and immediately fell in love with Ubud. Here, travel is not just a spectacle, but mingled with the people and learning the culture of Bali.Editor: I Made Asdhianasource kompas.com

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