Mas Village is one of villages in Bali fundamentally identified as an artistic
countryside by focusing in artistic of wood carving. Mas Village is
located in Ubud sub district and Gianyar Regency, east part of Bali. It
owns the typical style of wood carving art by placing forward the
distinguish synergy the humanism and naturalism. The village's
popularity as an art village is famous in the national and world level
which is not forgetting from the highness name of some maestros which
has borne and found the spirit (taksu) and soul. The famous maestro who
was borne in this village is Ida Bagus Tilem.
Place to visit in Bali
This
Artistic countryside owns the long history root. The result of wood
carving art in this village owns the immeasurable and wide dimension
like idol for the devoting (arca idol), representative dimension of
everyday Balinese social society life (farmer, fisherman, worker,
intellectual, merchant etc), the abstract dimension as existing of
actor imagination which is listening carefully of reality, dynamics and
life philosophy. The villagers are same as villagers at other tourism
countryside in Bali that have also experienced the transformation from
agrarian society to the crafting society. Even nowadays, it is
continued to service society from commerce service until levying
service of the souvenir for overseas and domestic tourist.
Location
It
is strategically located in the main road from Denpasar to Ubud and it
can be reached from various of angle. It is about 15 km easterly go to
the majors road to Ubud from Denpasar town. If you wish to go to this
place from Denpasar, the starting spandrel points step into Mas Village
is Sakah, where a big baby idol monumentally existing in the middle of
road. The Baby idol is a symbol and representative of human being life
early which is believed by local residents with full of philosophic
value, religious and dynamism. |
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