Mas Village is of villages in Bali fundamentally identified as an artistic countryside by focusing in artistic of wood carving. Mas Village is located in Ubud sub district & Gianyar Regency, east part of Bali. It owns the typical style of wood carving art by placing forward the distinguish synergy the humanism & naturalism. The village's popularity as an art village is famous in the national & world level which is not forgetting from the highness name of some maestros which has borne & found the spirit (taksu) & soul. The famous maestro who was borne in this village is Ida Bagus Tilem.
This Artistic countryside owns the long history root. The result of wood carving art in this village owns the immeasurable & 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 & 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 abroad & domestic tourist.
Location
It is strategically located by & huge road from Denpasar to Ubud & it can be reached from various of angle. It is about 15 km easterly go to the majors road to Ubud from Denpasar town. In case you need to go to this place from Denpasar, the beginning spandrel points step in to Mas Village is Sakah, where a huge child idol monumentally existing in the midst of road. The Child idol is a symbol & representative of human being life early which is believed by local residents with filled with philosophic value, religious & dynamism
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