Everybody may agree that Bali is indeed fortunate. Blessed more compared to other islands of Indonesia, including with its art life, the island is just like a spring never runs out of water. The island gave birth to a great number of talented artists, and probably still does so to artists of the new generation. Just briefly take a look at Ubud. You will be engulfed by a creative energy that inspires local and visiting artists in the place better known as artist village. Having done so, you may tend to match it up to Yogyakarta, known as centre of academic arts or Bandung which during the 60th and 70th was popularly known as art western art laboratory.

What is it then that really attracts artists of different origins to have an exodus to Bali (especially to Ubud)? To those who made decisions to become a professional artist, Yogyakarta and Bandung serve as a training ground where they go to two best of art academies: ASRI (Academy of Fine Arts) and ITB (Institute of Technology of Bandung).This is not to say that the two cities did not produce renowned artists on their own rights.  Surprised be not.Successful artists trained in one of the two academics, normally would go back to Bali to develop and perfect their artistic creativity. Classic examples of artists fall in this category are  the two Balinese fine art maestros: Made Wianta and Nyoman Gunarsa. This pattern of returning to the origin is followed by Balinese artists of younger generation. As with Ubud – this artist village boasts many of the finest exhibition and galleries on the island: Neka Gallery, Agung Rai Museum of Arts, Rudana Museum and Blanco Renaissance Museum. However, Bali does not only produce academic artists. As indispensably Bali environment (nature and tradition alike) becomes sources of artistic inspiration. This list of Bali’s blessings do not stop here. Bali’s tradition and socio-religiousness, besides playing economic role through its cultural and eco-tourism, represent the exoticism of Indonesia. Elements of tradition and religiousness are expressed and reinterpreted into arts in different forms.