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Bali dancers

This photo showing Bali dancers performing traditional dance. These local dancers have become popular thanks to various painting by modern painters.

The most famous was perhaps the German musician and painter, Walter Spies, who settled in Bali until the war broke out. His exquisite paintings introduced a new aesthetics, which the Balinese were quick to respond to and adopt. Miguel Covarrubias, the Mexican artist-anthropologist and his wife also settled in the Ubud area to create the great study, "Island of Bali", which remains unrivalled today as an exposition of Balinese culture. Also came Colin McPhee and his wife Jane Belo, who wrote "A House in Bali" and "Trance in Bali" respectively, and Margaret Mead with her husband, Gregory Bateson, who made important anthropological studies. The Dutch painter Rudolph Bonnet, Swiss Theo Meyer and the Belgian Le Mayeur de Perpres came to live in Bali, each creating and contributing to the development of painting which still flourishes on the island.

To read more: http://baliwww.com/bali-plus/history.htm

See these links if you are interested:
(a)http://paintings.balihand.com/product.php?cat=Bali+Dancer+Paintings

(b)http://www.flickr.com/photos/araleya/376152673/

(c)http://www.balihand.com/product.php?main=Paintings&sub=Bali+Dancer+Paintings

(d)http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/101195296/Oil_Painting_Bali_Dancer.html

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