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The Neka Art Museum was opened in 1982 and is named after a Balinese teacher Suteja Neka who collected paintings as a means of artistic documentation. Nowadays the museum has a great selection of works from many famous Balinese artists and expats who have lived here and influenced local artists.
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Neka Gallery was built in 1966 by Mr. Suteja Neka, an art connoisseur and his wife, Mrs. Srimin Suteja in culture village, Ubud. As a pioneer and an old hand fine art gallery , it is not merely boasting its integrity. This gallery has selected paintings from all art works by Balinese artists, Indonesian artists, Asian artists as well as European born artists such as Arie Smit. Their paintings was inspired by natural beauty, people and culture of Bali. Portrait of Suteja Neka Portrait of Suteja Neka
Portrait of Suteja Neka Portrait of Srimin Suteja, the wife of Suteja Neka
Antonio Mario Blanco (1926-1999) studied at the National Academy of Art in New York City, U.S.A. He has lived in Bali since 1952. His spontaneous style works feature voluptuous nude women, often in rather erotic or suggestive poses, with unusual frames designed by the artist himself. Awards: National College or Windsor honorary doctorate (Canada, 1948), Chevalier du Sahametri Scroll Decoration and silver medal (Cambodia, 1950), title of "Don" (Spain, 1992), Dharma Kusuma (Bali, 1995)
Arie Smit (1916) Shrines Beneath The Banyan 1972 Han Snel (1925-1998)
Arie Smit (1916) Detail
Affandi (1907-1990) was a self-taught artist. From 1951-1956 he travelled throughout India, the United Kingdom, Holland Belgium, France, and Italy, he taught painting sculpture at the Akademi Seni Rupa Indonesia (ASRI, Indonesian Academy of Fine Arts) in Yogyakarta, Central Java. International Peace Prize (Florence, Italy, 1997)
Chang Fee Ming (1959) Entering a Trance (Kerasukan), 1992 Chang Fee Ming (self-taught artist, 1959) Offering 1993
Chang Fee Ming (1959) Entering a Trance (Kerasukan), 1992 I Ketut Budiana (1950) Supernatural Transformations, 1986
Bali's most well-known artist, I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, was a master artisan, carver, and architect. Collection: Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam), Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (Leiden), Museum fur Volkenkunde (Basel). I Gusti Nyoman Lempad (1862-1978) Protection Of The Barong, 1939
Roger San Miguel (1941) A Midsummers Night Dream In Bali,1996
Roger San Miguel (1941) A Midsummers Night Dream In Bali (fragment)
Roger San Miguel (1941) Life of the artist, 1993
Jeremiah Elizalde Navarro (1924-1999) Gabor-Pendet Dance, 1991 Jeremiah Elizalde Navarro (1924-1999) Gopala dance
Teng Nee-Cheong (1951) East of Java, 1990
Srihadi Soedarsono (1931) Black Sand Beach, 1975 Balinese jukung (double outrigger canoes) with crocodile-like faces. Balinese fishermen believe that the eyes on their canoes help the vessels to see at night and avoid dangers, in addition to helping them find fish and other marine animals to catch. The eyes also frighten away harmful forces white at sea. The frontal view of one canoe looks light a horned buffalo head, and his separated from the others as a result. Sambodja (1934) Miss Komang (Luh Komang), 1997
Door detail Theo Meier (1908-1982) Two women in a garden
Suteja Neka began collecting paintings of high quality due to his close friendship with Dutch artists Rudolf Bonnet (1895 - 1978) and Arie Smith (born 1916).
In 1975 Neka and Bonnet traveled to Europe to view museums and galleries. Neka's aim to establish a fine arts museum in Bali was reinforced by this journey. After years of planning, the Neka Art Museum officially was opened by then Indonesian Minister of Education and Culture, Dr Daoed Joesoef, on the 7th of July in 1982.
In 1992 the province of Bali presented Suteja Neka with the Dharma Kusuma art award and gold medal on behalf of his devotion and efforts to raise the quality of and preserve Balinese art culture. In 1993 Neka was awarded the Piagam Hadiah Seni art award, the highest distinction in the arts from the Republic of Indonesia.
The Neka Art Museum, previously known as the Neka Museum, is unique because its collection of foreign artworks by Balinese, other Indonesian, and foreign artists all were inspired by the natural beauty, life, and culture of Bali.
Whether created by human hands or of supernatural origin, keris , the traditional Indonesian dagger, are believed to be physical manifestations of invisible forces. Forged in fire but symbolic of water, a keris represents a powerful union of cosmic complementary forces. The keris is an important family possession and considered to be an ancestral deity, as weapons often play critical roles in the rise and fall of families and fortunes in history. In Bali, an heirloom keris and other such metal objects are presented offerings every 210 days on the day called Tumpek Landep, which means ‘sharp’. They are cleaned, displayed in temple shrines, and presented with incense, holy water, and red-colored food and flowers to honor Hindu god of fire Brahma. This is followed by prayers for a sharp mind to Sanghyang Pasupati, the deity who empowers sacred objects and defeats ignorance. The exhibition Keris in Culture: Traditional Daggers in the Arts is a permanent part of the Neka Art Museum. Paintings with keris in them will also be displayed along with photographs of keris in Balinese rituals, dances and costumes. The keris is housed in a new two-storey room at the Neka Art Museum to complement the artworks on display.
