Pita Maha Association
Pita Maha was a Balinese artists' organization founded in 1934 by the Dutch painter Rudolf Bonnet. The goals of the organization were to improve the quality of Balinese works of art and to organize exhibitions on the subject of Balinese art. Due to the Second World War , the organization was dissolved in 1942.
Act
The artists sponsored by the organization mainly made carvings , drawings and paintings. To increase the quality of their work, the artists were supported by the artistic directors of the Pita Maha Association, Rudolf Bonnet, Walter Spies and I Goesti Njoman Lempad.
Walter Spies and his friends established Ubud as an international artist village. The fourth generation since Spies has now worked here.
Members of the Pita Maha Association often became successful artists, such as the carver I Nyoman Cokot and the sculptor and architect I Gusti Nyoman Lempad .
Exhibitions
The Pita Maha Associations organized several exhibitions of Balinese art, for example in Batavia , Yogyakarta , Bandoeng and Medan .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Art-From-Bali.com - The Pita Maha group. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
- ↑ T. Goto: The role and meaning of Pita-Maha in Bali island in 30s . In: Cultural Economics . tape 2 , no. 2 , September 30, 2000, ISSN 1344-1442 , doi : 10.11195 / jace1998.2.2_47 ( jst.go.jp [accessed January 14, 2018]).
- ↑ Ubud | Bali's impressive artist village. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
- ↑ I Nyoman Tjokot. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .