Continue reading »]]> there is some information provided from the online art school to the public about ceramics. We know that the ceramic goods are objects made ​​of clay and then baked. objects that can be sculpture, tile, brick or container such as vases, cups and plates.
Ceramic wares have been made by the people of ancient civilizations in China, the Middle East, Mexico, South America, and Asia in general. One of the oldest known examples of ceramics by the online art school are found in Asia and derived from approximately 7000 years BC.
There are three basic types of ceramics, namely articles of clay stone, clay and porcelain. This classification is based on the type of clay materials and firing way. Ceramics can be formed by hand or using a table player. Artisans forming ceramic clay with his hands when the table rotates. Then it was burned in a furnace to harden it. Before burning, the object can be decoration with glaze, glaze according to the online art school that is metal compounds that provide a variety of colors.

Continue reading »]]> Siter shape gamelan instrument used to sound something like guitar picking sound results. However, places and different shapes and sounds far away. Siter that strings a lot, to arrange the strings taut, starting from one chord tone set pelog and other strings with the tone slendro. To use a thumb ring, while the thumb nails to pluck the strings wheel. If pengrawit not have a strong thumb nail, it was replaced with a tool mounted on the thumb.

Siter is also used to accompany gendhing and tetabuhan, sirepan main gamelan. Well .. siter voice was calm, because it appears sound “klenthing … klenthing …” . The sound was klo set also voiced “cing … cing …” or “thing … thing …” because of fast string siter earlier. Gamelan if sirepan or gendhing the rhythmic sounds fine, siter add voices and gamelan pulling on the type gising like Ketawang subakastawa sendra sanga, Ketawang laras-maya, Ketawang motherland and so forth. It adds full sound wasps and siter in the gamelan.

Outside to accompany wayang kulit wasp and uyon-uyon, siter if played alone without using other gamelan can too. Such as used jineman-jineman and play other songs that use rhythm quickly add interesting, albeit with slower rhythms also delicious. There also used singers, Siter make gendhing and the song is mixed. From the classic gendhing to the new creation and campursari song can also, depending on the players who accompany singers.

Continue reading »]]> 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.