BALI

village of Ubud

 Ubud is a village municipality, oversees the 13 (thirteen) train service consisting of 6 (six), traditional villages, including the district of Ubud, Gianyar regency with a distance of 20 km from the city of Denpasar, Ubud can be reached in 30 minutes or 15 minutes from the town of Gianyar .

With a height of about 300 meters above sea level, Ubud has a cooler air from the plains region south of the original Balinese. Ubud Village has a population of about 9800 inhabitants. With an unspoiled environment, this area is an area source of inspiration for artists, including artists overseas, mainly European artists.
Ubud besides having beautiful nature, this area is also a village with a rich cultural heritage of the great artists, especially the famous painter, for example, I Gusti Nyoman Lempad (1862-1978), Anak Agung Gde Sobrat (1919-1992), I Gusti Made Deblog (1910-1986), later followed by others like, I Gusti Ketut Kobot, Ida Bagus Made, Dewa Putu Bedil, Ida Bagus Rai and others. The fame of the painters mentioned above participate inspire Western artists to reside in the village of Ubud.

Around the 1920s, two European painters from the Netherlands Rudolf Bonnet, Walter Spies of Germany and carve a new history of development of painting in Ubud area. Both the European painters introduced the technique of European aesthetics, especially in the fields of lighting, shading, perspective and anatomy. The local painters to absorb the new techniques in accordance with the basic values and local mind while taking the traditional themes so as to give a separate identity with a name or style Ubud Ubud style.

Ubud Village became famous as the birth of the artist thanks to the cooperation between Tjokordo Gde Agung Sukawati with Rudolf Bonnet to form an association of artists with the name of Pita Maha, who also gave birth to the birth of the Pita Maha is Gde Raka Sukawati Tjokordo, I Nyoman Gisti Lempad on 1936. Pita Maha is a gathering and a place to discuss issues and development of painting, as well as to exchange ideas and introduce the results of their art.

In its development and then, on the initiative of Ida Tjokordo Gde Agung Sukawati, supported by Rudolf Bonnet, a painter born in the Netherlands as well as local artists plan to establish a museum. Yayasan Ratna Wartha previously established given the task to carry out the development and management of the museum. In 1945 began the construction of the museum which is laying the first stone by Prime Minister Ali Sustroamidjoyo. In the past two years, precisely in 1956 the museum was opened by the Minister of Education and Culture Mr.Moh.Yamin
As a tourist destination, Ubud has many objects that appeal to tourists, both domestic and foreign. Some of these objects is the Puri Saren, which is located in Puri Ubud, the traditional art market, Monkey Forest (Wenara Wana) and museums.