Le Mayeur Museum Needs English Spoken Guide

Le Mayeur Museum Needs English Spoken Guide

Le Mayeur museum had been known in international. That is why a lot of people come from other countries who want to see this museum. In fact most of the visitors are foreign tourists, but unfortunately this museum doesn’t have English spoken guides.

One of visitors from Holland named Vivi said “This museum really needs English spoken guide, because this museum has a beautiful history,” she said. She also explained this museum were Le Mayeur house, if there any guides, they could explained how the process and the history of this museum.

The head of this museum named Gusti Putu Wiratha said there are no English spoken guide because there already articles in room I which tells about the history of the museum and why Le Mayeur house could be a museum under government. “I think those articles are enough,” he said.

The museum was Le Mayeur house, a painter from Belgia who used Ni Pollok, a young girl from Bali as a model but finally he marries her. The house is consists of five rooms. Room I is a living room for receiving their guests, Room II used to be a room for keeping books, room III was the place for painting with ni Pollok as a model, Room IV was their bedroom and room V was bathroom.

This house becomes a museum because Le Mayeur and Ni Pollok didn’t have children. That is why the education ministry, Bahder Djohan who visit the house in 1957 tell Ni Pollok to give the house to government when they were died to become a museum.

It needs four steps to repair the house and become the museum. In this museum there are 87 paintings by Le Mayeur. 3 paintings of pastels on paper in 1921, 4 paintings of oil on canvas in 1927, 3 paintings of oil on hard board in 1928, 28 painting on various media in 1929, 13 paintings on various media in 1938, 1 painting on canvas in 1945, 10 paintings in 1957, 3 paintings on 1921, 4 painting of oil on canvas in 1927, 3 paintings of oil on hard board in 1928 and 28 paintings on various media in 1929.

Another visitor from Australia named Hans also said the museum needs a guide who knew about the history and why the house becomes a museum. He also explained the article is not enough to explain the story behind the museum. “Or museum can make a catalogue about the museum and the paintings,” he said. Luckily he knew about the museum from his country when he discussing about painting with his friends and when he visits Bali, he visit the museum.

 Domestic visitors from Jember named Nunung also admitted she doesn’t know the history about this museum. She only past Sanur pedestrian and see the museum then she decided to visit the museum. “I read the article a little bit, but I don’t know the history before reading those articles,” she said. She also agreed if there a guide in the museum. “We will know about the story id there were guides here,” she said.

90 Teachers in Bali Learn Art Center’s Creation Dances

Art Centre have made two new creations in traditional dances. Those dances are Merak Angelo dance and Kasmaran dance and they were choreographed by I Ketut Rena, SST. Ketut Rena in the name of Art Center teaches these dance to dance teachers in Bali for Junior High School and Senior High School.

These dances are taught to teachers in Ksirarnawa building Art Center started yesterday in Creation Dance Workshop. Teachers are from 9 residences in Bali which is each residence consists of 4 teachers from Junior High School, 4 teachers from Senior High School and 2 teachers from dance studio so the total there are 90 teachers who learn about these dances.

This workshop will be held until February 22^nd 2008. These 90 teachers will be learn about the dances everyday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Teachers who came from far place can stayed in the place where art center provides. After they had the practice they will teach the dances to their students.

The head of Art Center, I Gusti Ngurah rai Byarnawa said this program is regular program which is made by art center. As the evaluation art center will held competition among schools in Bali in September. “As evaluation we will hold a competition for all Junior High School and Senior High School in Bali, so we can see the result of this workshop,” he said. The competition will be held in September with Merak Angelo as the dance for Junior High School and Kasmaran as the dance for Senior High School.

About the budget in making this event, Ngurah said the budget is come from region government (DPA SKKP). “We also give the teacher money as transportation budget,” he said. He also hoped with this dance students can keep traditional culture in their mind.

As the choreographer of this dance, Ketut Rena is trying to give simple dance but also beautiful and exotic. “The important is those teachers can teach the dance in the right way, so I make a simple dance but it still beautiful,” said Rena.

Merak Angelo is telling about male peacock which dancing and showing its beautiful feathers to make the female bird interested with him. The peacock will dancing and flying all around the place. “The dance is very beautiful, more over the costume support it,” he said. Ketut Rena also said he got the inspiration from peacock which flying around when they want to make their female impressed.

Mean while Kasmaran dance is telling about teen girls who falling in love and they express their feeling with erotic moves full of meaning. Ketut Rena showed erotic sensation through this moves because it tells about girl in love.

One of teacher from 01 Junior High School Denpasar named Nyoman Sukasih S. pd. said that these dance is not so difficult but it needs high concentration in hip. “A lot of moves which need concentration in hip,” she said. “It is natural because the dance is about peacock which showing its feather, of course it will need hip,” Rena said.

 Another teacher from 09 Junior High School named Kadek Aryawati Spd, said “We have to know the technique, if we got it, it will be easy,” she said. She also admitted she will teach some of her students in preparing the competition. “I’m sure my students will dance beautifully,” she said.

Gede Nurjaya: Enough with Rp 2.5 Billion

The head of tourism district in Bali, Gede Nurjaya said it is enough for us to promote Bali with Rp 2.5 billion, because it is budget from government. “We have to be satisfied with that decision and do the promotion as optimal as we can,” he said. He also admitted the budget is lower than last year but it is enough.

 

According to tourism district data 2008 budget for Bali is Rp 16.453.938.000. “This budget is including 5 billion salaries and budget for eight programs and 32 activities like festivals and others,” he said. One of program is promoting program and the budget is only 2.5 billion rupiahs. “It looks like the budget is lower than before, but it is very difficult because Bali’s priority if to overcome poorness, increasing healthy and education,” he said.

 

He admitted the budget will be used to promoting Bali in other countries. “For this year we will have promotion to Berlin, Japan, London, India, Malaysia and China,” he said. The promotion will be in the form of following their event. Bali also will make a road show to China in this year. “I thin it is effective and optimal enough for us,” he said. Besides promoting to other countries tourism district also will promote Bali to Jakarta, Batam and Balik Papan.

 

Gede Nurjaya also explained, even though the budget only reach Rp 2.5 billion for promoting Bali, there are other budget which used for other program but it supported Bali’s promotion. “So we don’t have to worry,” he said. The program is inviting journalists from other countries so they can promote Bali in their countries.

 

“At present there are India journalists who have their tour in Bali and it will be continued with Hong Kong journalists in 23 – 25 February 2008,” he said. Nurjaya explained the budget is not from promoting budget, because it is a different program. In this program tourist district had cooperation with some hotels, airlines, travel agents and others. “Hopefully the journalists can promote Bali to their countries, so we can decrease promotions to other countries,” he said.

 

He also explained tourism in 2008 had improved and it is proved with the increased of foreign tourists who had a vacation here. In 2008 foreign tourists are improved 29.88 % compare with 2007. The total reached 145.883 foreign tourists. “It is a good thing for Bali, and I hope it is keep improving without stopping any promotion from us,” he said.

 

He explained the promotion can be done with that budget. “Don’t expect too much in promotion like commercial break in international television or something, of course the budget won’t enough, we’ll do the best thing to promote Bali,” he said.

Jelang Nyepi, Produsen Ogoh-Ogoh Panen

Menjelang hari perayaan nyepi, produsen ogoh-ogoh panen orderan. Ini dirasakan oleh Drs. I Wayan Candra yang telah menjadi produsen ogoh-ogoh puluhan tahun lalu. “Tahun ini terlalu banyak yang memesan, sampai kewalahan saya,” terangnya.

Tahun ini dirasakan Candra lebih berat, pasalnya masyarakat sekarang lebih banyak memesan dibandingkan membuat ogoh-ogoh sendiri. “Sekarang masyarakat banyak yang memesan, jadinya kami kebanyakan orderan,” tambahnya. Untuk saat ini saja Candra masih mempunyai 70 pesanan yang belum rampung sehingga ia harus menolak pesanan hingga Nyepi nanti.

Candra memiliki 25 pekerja yang membantunya, para pekerja ini bisa menyelesaikan 4 sampai 5 buah ogoh-ogoh per harinya. Sebuah ogoh-ogoh untuk ukuran anak-anak dihargai dari Rp 700.000 hingga satu juta rupiah sedangkan sebuah ogoh-ogoh untuk ukuran dewasa dihargai dari 2 hingga 7 juta rupiah.

Pesanan yang didapat bisa berupa pesanan individual dan juga pesanan banjar, Candra juga menerima pesanan per bagian karena banyak yang memesan bagian-bagian yang sulit dibuat seperti topeng dan tangan. Pesanan pun berasal bukan hanya dari Denpasar, akan tetapi juga dari kabupaten lain seperti Gianyar dan Karang Asem

Seorang pemesan yang bernama Gung Rana yang memesan bagian topeng saja mengatakan bahwa ia berasal dari Banjar yang berada di Denpasar Barat. Ia mengaku bahwa bagian topeng adalah bagian yang paling susah untuk dibuat sehingga ia memutuskan untuk membeli. “Lagian buatan sini lebih terlihat hidup,” ujarnya.

Candra juga mengakui untuk tahun ini pesanannya meningkat, apalagi banyak anak-anak yang diwajibkan sekolahnya untuk membuat ogoh-ogoh. Salah satunya adalah Wayan Kurniawan, murid kelas 4 SD Saraswati Denpasar tersebut mengaku bahwa ia secara berkelompok mendapatkan tugas dari guru untuk membuat ogoh-ogoh. “Harus dikumpulin hari Sabtu, buat Nyepi,” katanya.

“Ini bagus untuk mengasah kreativitas anak, untuk bagian yang mereka rasa sulit kami lah yang membuatnya,” ujar Candra. Hanya saja pesanan yang ia dapatkan dirasakan terlalu banyak, apalagi diantara mereka ada yang memesan bentuk yang aneh. “Bayangkan saja, kami harus membuat muka Tukul sebagai kepalanya,” imbuhnya. Maka dari itu sebanyak 70 pesanan yang belum ia selesaikan ini dirasakan cukup hingga menjelang nyepi dan tidak akan menerima pesanan lagi untuk satu ogoh-ogoh utuh tetapi ia masih menerima pesanan per bagian seperti tangan dan kepala. (rahma regina)

Cat Tembok di Atas Kanvas

Di pantai double six, Rino (42) melakukan negosiasi dengan turis Australia, kemarin. Tawar menawar pun berakhir dengan terjualnya satu lukisan bertemakan pemandangan Tanah Lot seharga Rp. 300.000. Lukisan di atas kanvas dengan berbagai tema ini ia jajakan setiap harinya mulai pukul 9 pagi hingga pukul 6 sore. Tidak seperti lukisan biasanya yang memakai cat minyak, acrylic ataupun pastel, pelukis ini menggunakan campuran antara cat minyak, cat tembok dan cat kayu di atas kanvasnya.

pelukis yang mempunyai tempat mangkal di pantai double six ini memang menggunakan cat tembok dan cat kayu sebagai campuran kedalam cat minyak yang ia gunakan untuk melukis. Rino mengaku ia menggunakan campuran cat tembok dan cat kayu itu dikarenakan untuk mengurangi biaya yang harus ia keluarkan untuk membuat sebuah lukisan. “Kalo saya harus memakai cat minyak semua, ya ngga balik modal mbak,” ujarnya. Ia juga mengatakan bahwa lukisan yang dibuat masih tetap terlihat indah walaupun memakai campuran cat tembok dan kayu.

 

Pelukis lainnya yang bernama Made pun mengakui bahwa ia mencampur cat minyak dengan cat kayu dan tembok. Ini dikarenakan harga cat minyak akan menjadi tidak terjangkau jika ia menggunakannya untuk seluruh lukisan. “Harga cat minyak juga sekarang udah mahal mbak, jadi kita cuma nyampur sedikit aja cat minyaknya, yang lebih banyak kita campur itu cat kayu,” imbuhnya.

Mahalnya harga cat minyak membuat mereka terpaksa mencampurnya dengan cat tembok dan cat kayu. Mereka mengakui bahwa setelah mereka menggunakan cat tembok dan kayu, pengeluaran yang mereka harus keluarkan agak berkurang. Selain membeli kanvas, pelukis-pelukis ini juga harus mengeluarkan biaya untuk alat lukis dan cat minyak. Karena itu mereka harus menekan biaya dengan cara mencampur cat minyak dengan cat tembok dan kayu.

Walaupun mereka menggunakan cat tembok dan kayu, lukisan mereka tetap dinikmati oleh beberapa wisatawan. “itu tergantung seberapa bagus kita melukis mbak,” ujar Rino. Rino juga mengakui bahwa cat tembok ataupun cat kayu terkadang mempunyai kelemahan tersendiri ketika dioleskan ke kain kanvas. “Cat tembok dan kayu, terutama cat temboknya agak tidak menyatu dengan kanvas, dan kita memang harus sabar untuk menunggu keringnya,” ujarnya. Rino telah menjalankan profesi ini selama 20 tahun, pada awalnya ia selalu menggunakan cat minyak akan tetapi untuk menekan pengeluaran ia mulai mencampurkannya dengan cat tembok dan cat kayu.

Seorang turis Australia bernama Jessie, mengatakan bahwa ia tidak tahu menahu soal cat tembok atau kayu yang dioleskan ke lukisan yang ia baru saja beli tersebut. “Yang saya tahu hanya lukisan ini sangat indah, bahkan saya baru tahu ketika anda mengatakan hal tersebut,” ujarnya ketika ditanyakan tentang perihal tersebut.

Harga cat minyak mengalami kenaikkan sejak sepekan terakhir. Saat ini seratus gram cat minyak dijual di tingkat pengecer seharga Rp 3.200. Ini menyebabkan makin maraknya penggunaan cat kayu dan cat tembok dikalangan pelukis di pinggir pantai.

Pelukis-pelukis ini menjajakan lukisannya dengan cara menawarkan gulungan-gulungan lukisan kepada turis baik itu mancanegara ataupun domestik. Mereka juga menawarkan jasanya untuk melukis foto langsung di tempat. Mereka menjual lukisan dengan harga Rp 65.000 – 200.000 per buah untuk wisatawan domestik sedangkan mereka menjual lukisan dengan harga Rp 100.000 – Rp 600.000 per buah untuk wisatawan asing.

 Made juga mengatakan bahwa turis asing yang menyukai lukisannya kebanyakan berasal dari Australia dan tidak jarang mereka membeli lukisan sebanyak 4-5 sekaligus untuk dibawa kenegaranya. Sedangkan turis domestik tidak begitu berminat dengan lukisan-lukisannya yang kebanyakan bertemakan pemandangan alam Bali. “mereka biasasnya memesan lukisan foto,” tambahnya. (rahma regina)