Title
Kamasan Painting
Year/Period
first half of the 20th century
Region
Klungkung, Bali, Indonesia
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 137.5 x 157.8 cm
Accession No.
2018-00927
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the City of Delft, Netherlands
This traditional Balinese painting pictures the punishments awaiting evil doers in Hell. It is painted in the Kamasan style, a very traditional form of painting associated with the village of Kamasan in Klunkung regency on the island of Bali. The village was known as a centre for producing artists and painters in the customary style and strictly depicted visual narratives of the Hindu-Javanese epics such as the Mahabharata and Ramayana as well as indigenous tales like the Panji stories primarily for religious and ceremonial purposes.
