Vol. 1 No. 2 (2007)

Denmark

Wayang Kulit Purwa"”based on Indian epics and original Javanese myths"”is considered as the media link between the Hindi-Buddhism era (Kabudan) and the Islamic era (Kewalen) of the Indonesian traditional arts. It is assumed that wayang kulit holds a relationship role to these two eras. The effort to understand this relationship can only be explained through Sufism that was practiced by the Nine Apostles of Java (Wali Sanga) who has contributed a great deal to the Wayang Kulit Purwa adaptations. It is obvious that there are Sufistic meanings in the visualizations of the figure in Wayang Kulit…

The female traditional outfits of Sunda are varied according to geography, history, social life, economy, and cultural transformations that have taken place for centuries. The similarity in both cultures and historical background had resulted in the similarity on structural design of the various female outfits in this area. This study focuses to identify various styles of kebaya Sunda that shared similarity of features. The word Sunda itself was used as a collective term, and apparently had a relation with the original place and culture of the kebaya wearers "“ female Sundanese. Given wide…

Art work serves not only for personal expression but also have social function. It is quite obvious as some Indonesian women artists use their art works to express gender equality issues. Their ideas are contributing greatly to the development of contemporary visual art in Indonesia. These women artists express issues of gender that whether personally experienced by them or other women in general, using the expressive style of surrealism, expressionism, and naturalism. Certainly, their art works show good aesthetics values, supported by excellent skills and technical abilities. Most of their…

Mask dance is one of the traditional performing arts that has grown and developed ever since the Hindu period. At the beginning, this artistic performance serves as the medium in the ceremonial tradition related to the ritual of elderly summon, for giving blessings and provide salvations. In the Islam period, the performance was used by Sunan Gunung Djati as a media of religious endeavor to show the phase in human

This paper ellaborates how human body is visualized in Indonesian contemporary art works, especially in the works of Agus Suwage, Arahmani, Ivan Sagita, and IGAK Murniasih. In their works, human body becomes the base of epistemological creation. Their different points of view and vocalizations resulted in the various themes of human body. Human body becomes full of social, political, psychological, philoshopical, empirical, and cultural values.

According to the medium, arts can be classified into the art of visual, the art of hearing, and the art of words. Those included in the art of visual are dance and fine art, in the art of hearing is music and in the art of words is poetry. This paper describes one of the art of the visual"”dance, which use human body and its movement as a medium of expression. Fact shows that a dance performance exists due to the involvement of supporting elements such as visual disposition. Certain dances limit themselves to the supporting elements of costumes, make-up, property (tools) and musical…

The intertwined influence of both local and global phenomena toward the disturbance of environment requires immediate awareness of all; including also designers, architects, and building contractors. Yet, it is hardly to find concrete application in the field of interior design that embeds ecological approach on buildings, especially for the case of Indonesia. To address the issue, this study looks into several buildings in Java that have applied ecological-approach, a balanced-way between human, space, and environment. Having the purpose to investigate and to compare applied…

This study tries to uncover the existence of ideological values that are present in the global advertisement in Indonesia, by focusing on how these ideological values are present in the communication ideas of global advertisements. It is aimed to respond to the whole factual problem using a series of analysis. At first, the meaningful expression of objects are identified, especially those that are related to the thoughts, perceptions, concepts, and objectives of global expressions in the advertisements. The interpretation norm of semiotic approach was employed to identify the ideological…