Mas Village is one village in Bali fundamentally
identified as an artistic countryside by focusing in artistic of wood carving.
Mas Village is located in Ubud sub district and Gianyar Regency, east part of
Bali. It owns the typical style of wood carving art by placing forward the
distinguish synergy the humanism and naturalism. The village's popularity as an
art village is famous in the national and world level which is not forgetting
from the highness name of some maestros which has born and found the spirit
(taksu) and soul. The famous maestro who was born in this village is Ida Bagus
Tilem.
LOCATION
It is strategically located in the main road from
Denpasar to Ubud and it can be reached from various of angle. It is about 15 km
easterly go to the majors road to Ubud from Denpasar town. It can be reached about 50 minutes from Ngurah Rai Airport, Kuta, Seminyak. 15 minutes from Ubud. If you wish to go to
this place from Denpasar, the starting spandrel points step into Mas Village is
Sakah, where a big baby idol monumentally existing in the middle of road. The
Baby idol is a symbol and representative of human being life early which is
believed by local residents with full of philosophic value, religious and
dynamism.
INTERESTING POINT
This Artistic countryside owns the long history
root. The result of wood carving art in this village owns the immeasurable and
wide dimension like idol for the devoting (arca idol), representative dimension
of everyday Balinese social society life (farmer, fisherman, worker,
intellectual, merchant etc), the abstract dimension as existing of actor
imagination which is listening carefully of reality, dynamics and life philosophy.
The villagers are same as villagers at other tourism countryside in Bali that
have also experienced the transformation from agrarian society to the crafting
society. Even nowadays, it is continued to service society from commerce
service until levying service of the souvenir for overseas and domestic
tourist.
