Minggu, 05 Juni 2011
Bali Ametis Luxury Villas: The fairy arts of Ubud
Bali Ametis Luxury Villas: The fairy arts of Ubud: "No place in the world could be greener than Ubud. Everything here is green: the fluorescent emerald flash of young rice fields, the thick cu..."
Bali Ametis Luxury Villas: Balinese cuisine
Bali Ametis Luxury Villas: Balinese cuisine: "In subtlety, variety and creativity, Balinese food holds a high rank among Indonesia's cuisine. And it's becoming much easier to find wester..."
Balinese cuisine
In subtlety, variety and creativity, Balinese food holds a high rank among Indonesia's cuisine. And it's becoming much easier to find western-oriented Balinese cuisine . Many hotel restaurants now have token babi guling (roast suckling pig) or a bebek betutu (spiced duck) on their menus but the dishes are modified to suit sensitive Western taste.
Since dining out is not a social custom on Bali, the visitor is not likely to experience real, unadulterated Balinese cooking unless invited into a Balinese home. Even on such monumental ritual occasions as weddings or family ceremony of passage, the Balineses themselves serve a majority of Javenese of Chinese dishes that are not distinctly Balinese. About the only commercial location to consistently experience the real thing, with all the proper spices and side dishes, are the night market foodstalls, warung, or from an old crone who serves up meals in banana leaf under the village Banyan tree during a cockfight.
Balinese ceremony food is difficult to find because it's usually only prepared for hundreds of people on exclusive occasions. Since coconut oil goes bad very quickly and refrigeration in villages limited, preparations for such perishable, difficult feast dishes as mebat and lawar begin early in the morning.
The two or three meals rural Balinese eat each day are almost identical - lots of boiled white rice supplemented by tiny fish, vegetables, peanuts, cucumber, chilies, and minute portion of spiced meat, egg, or tempe. In inland areas, dried and salted fish is more common. In poor areas, rice is even mixed with cord, cassava, or sweet potatoes.
There are no courses. In a sense, there are no mealtimes. Food is prepared in the morning and is left in pots under protective basket on the kitchen table to eat whenever desired. Except throughout ceremonial feasting, the Balinese are very simple eaters. A glass of warm water or tea accompanies the frugal meal, which is often eaten cold.
Balinese food is eaten with one's fingers so that none of the delectably spicy flavors are compromised by the savor of metal eating utensils. Finger are considered cleaner than eating utensils.
Stay with us at Bali Ametis Luxury Villas, and our butler will take you to experience all the sublime Balinese cuisine. We will ensure you will have unforgettable memories during you stay at Bali Ametis Luxury Villas.
Copyright 2011, Ametis Villa - Bali Luxury Villas | Private Villa | Honeymoon Villa
Since dining out is not a social custom on Bali, the visitor is not likely to experience real, unadulterated Balinese cooking unless invited into a Balinese home. Even on such monumental ritual occasions as weddings or family ceremony of passage, the Balineses themselves serve a majority of Javenese of Chinese dishes that are not distinctly Balinese. About the only commercial location to consistently experience the real thing, with all the proper spices and side dishes, are the night market foodstalls, warung, or from an old crone who serves up meals in banana leaf under the village Banyan tree during a cockfight.
Balinese ceremony food is difficult to find because it's usually only prepared for hundreds of people on exclusive occasions. Since coconut oil goes bad very quickly and refrigeration in villages limited, preparations for such perishable, difficult feast dishes as mebat and lawar begin early in the morning.
The two or three meals rural Balinese eat each day are almost identical - lots of boiled white rice supplemented by tiny fish, vegetables, peanuts, cucumber, chilies, and minute portion of spiced meat, egg, or tempe. In inland areas, dried and salted fish is more common. In poor areas, rice is even mixed with cord, cassava, or sweet potatoes.
There are no courses. In a sense, there are no mealtimes. Food is prepared in the morning and is left in pots under protective basket on the kitchen table to eat whenever desired. Except throughout ceremonial feasting, the Balinese are very simple eaters. A glass of warm water or tea accompanies the frugal meal, which is often eaten cold.
Balinese food is eaten with one's fingers so that none of the delectably spicy flavors are compromised by the savor of metal eating utensils. Finger are considered cleaner than eating utensils.
Stay with us at Bali Ametis Luxury Villas, and our butler will take you to experience all the sublime Balinese cuisine. We will ensure you will have unforgettable memories during you stay at Bali Ametis Luxury Villas.
Copyright 2011, Ametis Villa - Bali Luxury Villas | Private Villa | Honeymoon Villa
The fairy arts of Ubud
No place in the world could be greener than Ubud. Everything here is green: the fluorescent emerald flash of young rice fields, the thick curtains of foliage only greener for scarlet accents of ginger and hibiscus. Anything that began another color, brick wall or pebble walkway, soon becomes green with shaggy moss. Even the air possesses a pale green cast, as the moisture suspended in it picks up the pervasive glow of the leafage.
"Magic" is one of those words that travel writers must use with miserly care - usually, it's just hyperbole for "especially pretty" but there really is magic in Ubud. When Balinese people bereave something, they consult a balian, a benign sort of sorcerer, who tells them where they'll find it. Balians can read dreams, cure sickness, go into trances and speak in the voices of forefather. And magic, in the form of the island's unique religion, is at the core of Bali's arts. A blend of Hinduism and nature worship, Balinese religion is an ecstatic union of the aesthetic and the spiritual reminiscent of the civilization of archaic Greece. Bali's famous trance dances, for example, suggest the rites of Bacchus: in the Sanghyang, two girls who are supposed to be untrained in the dance's intricate choreography go into a trance and, eyes firmly shut, move in faultless unison. The dance is named after the divine spirit which inhabits them.
When Walter Spies arrived in Bali, he found a culture completely devoted to art, yet to whom the concept of art for art's sake was alien. The Balinese famously have no word for "artist"; painting, stone and wood carving, weaving, playing the gamelan, and above all the dance were just what one did when not fishing or working in the rice fields.
It is an axiom of art history that what used to be known as primitive art had a intimate formative influence on the emergence of modernism in twentieth-century Europe. In Bali, Europe returned the favor: Spies had an uncanny natural affinity for the Balinese sensibility, and he totally changed the arts of the island in the fourteen years he lived there. The familiar Pita Maha school of painting in Ubud, one of the principal reasons people come from every part of the world to visit here, was virtually his invention.
Traditionally, the Balinese considered painting the be among the lowest of the arts; before Spies it was comparatively primitive, consisting mainly of astrological shadow-puppet show popular throughout the archipelago. Painters were strictly limited by convention and the natural pigments, such as bone, soot, and clay, that were available to them.
Spies, later joined by the Dutch paste-list Rudolf Bonnet, acquainted Balinese artists to the vivid colors of Western painting, and the greater range of effects possible with ready-made brushes, pigments, and fine-woven canvas. More substantial, Spies and Bonnet extremely expanded the range of subject matter, encouraging their student to paint scenes from everyday life. Lest Spies and Bonnet be accused of tampering with an ancient tradition, it should be pointed out that Balinese art was always innovative; the island's most famous artist, I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, had already begun to experiment in both style and subject matter before Spies's arrival. Just Picasso chose African sculpture as ab influence in his work, so the painters of Bali responded freely and immediately to Spies's stimulus.
Stay with us at Bali Ametis Luxury Villas, and our butler will take you to see all the sublime arts of Ubud. We will ensure you will have unforgettable memories during you stay at Bali Ametis Luxury Villas.
Copyright 2011, Ametis Villa - Bali Luxury Villas | Private Villa | Honeymoon Villa
"Magic" is one of those words that travel writers must use with miserly care - usually, it's just hyperbole for "especially pretty" but there really is magic in Ubud. When Balinese people bereave something, they consult a balian, a benign sort of sorcerer, who tells them where they'll find it. Balians can read dreams, cure sickness, go into trances and speak in the voices of forefather. And magic, in the form of the island's unique religion, is at the core of Bali's arts. A blend of Hinduism and nature worship, Balinese religion is an ecstatic union of the aesthetic and the spiritual reminiscent of the civilization of archaic Greece. Bali's famous trance dances, for example, suggest the rites of Bacchus: in the Sanghyang, two girls who are supposed to be untrained in the dance's intricate choreography go into a trance and, eyes firmly shut, move in faultless unison. The dance is named after the divine spirit which inhabits them.
When Walter Spies arrived in Bali, he found a culture completely devoted to art, yet to whom the concept of art for art's sake was alien. The Balinese famously have no word for "artist"; painting, stone and wood carving, weaving, playing the gamelan, and above all the dance were just what one did when not fishing or working in the rice fields.
It is an axiom of art history that what used to be known as primitive art had a intimate formative influence on the emergence of modernism in twentieth-century Europe. In Bali, Europe returned the favor: Spies had an uncanny natural affinity for the Balinese sensibility, and he totally changed the arts of the island in the fourteen years he lived there. The familiar Pita Maha school of painting in Ubud, one of the principal reasons people come from every part of the world to visit here, was virtually his invention.
Traditionally, the Balinese considered painting the be among the lowest of the arts; before Spies it was comparatively primitive, consisting mainly of astrological shadow-puppet show popular throughout the archipelago. Painters were strictly limited by convention and the natural pigments, such as bone, soot, and clay, that were available to them.
Spies, later joined by the Dutch paste-list Rudolf Bonnet, acquainted Balinese artists to the vivid colors of Western painting, and the greater range of effects possible with ready-made brushes, pigments, and fine-woven canvas. More substantial, Spies and Bonnet extremely expanded the range of subject matter, encouraging their student to paint scenes from everyday life. Lest Spies and Bonnet be accused of tampering with an ancient tradition, it should be pointed out that Balinese art was always innovative; the island's most famous artist, I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, had already begun to experiment in both style and subject matter before Spies's arrival. Just Picasso chose African sculpture as ab influence in his work, so the painters of Bali responded freely and immediately to Spies's stimulus.
Stay with us at Bali Ametis Luxury Villas, and our butler will take you to see all the sublime arts of Ubud. We will ensure you will have unforgettable memories during you stay at Bali Ametis Luxury Villas.
Copyright 2011, Ametis Villa - Bali Luxury Villas | Private Villa | Honeymoon Villa
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