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Mas Village, Gianyar Regency own the Typical Style in Wood Carving

March 6th, 2007

Mas Village has most fundamental identity as an artistic countryside by focusing in artistic of wood carving. Mas Village is located in Ubud sub district, Gianyar Regency own the typical style in wood carving art placing forward the distinguish synergy the humanism and naturalism. This Countryside popularity as a famous art countryside mounted in the national and world level and not get out of the highness name of some maestro which born, enlarged and find the spirit, taksu and soul have artistry in Mas village like big actor of Ida Bagus Tilem and others.

Mas Village is a place to visit in Bali
This Artistic countryside owns the long history root. Result of wood carving art in that countryside own the immeasurable and wide dimension like idol for the devoting (arca idol), representative dimension of everyday social Bali society life (farmer, fisherman, worker, intellectual, merchant etc) the abstract dimension as existing of actor imagination which listening carefully of reality, dynamics and life philosophy.

Dimension obtaining big Wight and extend is to importance of souvenir and commodity of local, national and international commercial. The Mas Village’s society are same as other tourism countryside in Bali, have also experienced of the transformation from agrarian society to the crafting society and nowadays continue to service society from commerce service until service of levying the souvenir for overseas and domestic tourist. Although fundamental identity of Mas Village is artistic countryside, nowadays also expand immeasurable of very important and potential cultural fascination and a tourism object in upstate of Mas Village is Rudana Museum. One from some museum monumental about Bali artistry, specially art painting. This Museum owns the very big collection, typically and collects several of high valuable painting.

Mas Village Location
The location of Mas Village is stay in the strategic position and reachable from the various angle. Related to the position of Denpasar town, hence location of Mas Village reside in about 15 km easterly go to the majors road to Ubud. Starting spandrel points step into Mas Village is Sakah, where there are a big baby idol which monumental. The Baby idol represent the symbol and representative of human being life early which is in belief and local wisdom very loaded with the philosophic value, religious and dynamism. In cognate of Balinese, baby represent the representative of fertility and early stage of human being species before human being enter the life cycle hereinafter.

Source : www.balistarisland.com

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