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Jan
27

Antique Mask

Mask was not foreign to be known, because in many of the world community to create masks that reflect the typical tribal territory or on their own. So in the particular country, people carve different types of masks as works of art to be preserved. Because the mask is regarded as a legacy from the previous era. Mask defined masks made of wood, paper, cloth and other materials with different shapes, previously functioned as a tool to deal with ancestral spirits. It can be seen in tribal ceremonies. Over time the influence of modernization of the function is transformed into art.

Now mask vary according to the character who wants to be raised.

Plain without any color masks and other ornaments, includes a variety of symbols, decorative, expressive with a depiction of a realistic, abstract and abstract piguratif non piguratip. In addition, a variety of traditional and modern masks can be found. In Indonesia there are three traditional mask the mask of Java, Bali, and Dayak. One of the antique masks in Bali we can see from the work of  mask makers Ida Bagus Anom.

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