IMPLEMENTASI LUKISAN KLASIK KAMASAN PADA MEDIA ALTERNATIF TENGKORAK KEPALA KERBAU

Abstract

In making a contemporary work of art, takes creativity and awareness of locality values, traditional visual elements by taking a visualization of the past and present in socio-cultural discourse. The material object of the creation of this painting will develop the decorative elements of the Kamasan classical painting of Balinese tradition, with exploration in an alternative medium of fine art that is using three-dimensional of an organic object media, is buffalo skulls. The representations of works tend to be ornamental, adapting the character of shapes, and the philosophical content of Classical Kamasan paintings. Strategies for developing ornamental designs are carried out as part of adaptation to the development of global art. The Intrinsic ornamental variety development model that emphasizes of distillation, transformed, distorted and develops ornamental variety with extrinsic powers, namely the value of meaning or symbolic. The implementation of elements of tradition with alternative art media becomes part of the dynamics of cultural development that has the opportunity to process, change, enrich and transform the work of art in accordance with the times. Visualization of this tradition often appears in the visual form of signs or markers in contemporary art. The exploration and implementation of the Kamasan Classic Balinese painting with buffalo skull is expected to provide an enrichment of the visuality of traditional artifacts in Indonesian contemporary paintings.