Throughout the history of human civilization, along with the age of the universe in achieving modernization, Love is being well known for all the creatures on the planet earth. Universally meaning for all human beings, even Love could transforming the simplest desire into the deepest feeling of resignation. Love might be a form of reason for all occurrences which sometimes could not describe logically or mathematically. If Love placed as a word with its limited meaning, then she will said as a tenderly deep feeling of caring somebody or something. But none of those strands word could be boundaries to prison Love. Every place in this world has different way and manner to express love and affection. Love sometimes could answer to many questions which ended with one main reason; what reason would you imagine when you do something, what is your reason pointed when you start dislike something, or when you are stuck in a thinking to re-find the cause of reasons why you decided to release something, then Love in the form of power could forced you doing something, Love against something provoke you to understand every detail of it then you might be able to find out the things you don’t like and raise boredom and hate, and love will bring you to learn on how to release something you’d really like. Those are a deep speculation about love because she can not be limited and confined in a special sense.
One day on February known as day to reflected Love and affection meaning, that day called Valentine’s Day, as said before that every part in this green planet has time to written Love power. Bali as a unique civilization with many history and culture of the Hinduism since ancient times has the day to reflect love and affection as well. According to a source, Wuku Saniscara Kliwon Krulut or commonly referred to as Tumpek Krulut is used as a ceremony of Taksu. In this case, Taksu is a person or object that could cause a pleasure of others nearby, and from this joyful affection could raise Love. God with the form as Sang Hyang Semara Jaya and Sang Hyang Semara Ratih in Balinese Hindu communities is as a symbolic worship used in ceremonies such as marriage, manhood, or potong gigi. Symbols of Sang Hyang Semara Jaya and Ratih are always a facilities and infrastructure in providing a sense of affection through all the ritual; it is more about vertically connection between humans and The Creator and horizontally dealings among humans. Sang Hyang Semara Jaya and Ratih is a symbol of God’s fusion deploying to every human being and able to give the history of the love and affection formation between humans. Dance procession called Oleg Tambulilingan is a form love of art that has managed to describe the form of how Sang Hyang Semara Jaya and Sang Hyang Semara Ratih meet each other in every soul of man and a woman. Originally, Oleg Tambulilingan only perform by woman dancer but later in their development then add male dancer to give more meaning to the reunification of Sang Hyang Semara Jaya and Sang Hyang Semara Ratih.
These realism of Love in culture and social life has lead Bali as a small island filled with glorious cultural heritage of his ancestors and proving that Love and Compassion in the realm of cultural preservation reiterated that Love couldn’t be limited only by having understanding of the words itself but rather about Love limitless.
Javanese ancient mention that “Rangda” came from the word “Randa” = Widow. Rangda usually use by noble to mention a widow which is no longer a wife to a husband. Written in Mpu Baradah Sanskrit, once upon a time there was a young pretty girl named Nyi Sadya who able to attract King Erlangga, King of Daha. Erlangga brought Nyi Sadya to the palace and became wife of Erlangga. When pregnant, Nyi Sadya wants to be provided with seven human hearts from various classes of dynasty. Because of this impossibility request, then Erlangga decided to banish Nyi Sadya to the forest of Girah. Then officially, Rangda Girah became a widower of King Erlangga.
A process of drawing something in a flat form using paint or ink is called a painting. Have a closer meaning with aesthetic and art makes a painting as an object fully contain with creativity implementation. A painting can represent someone imaginer feeling to amused art curator or a person who loves painting or just to eyes sight seeing. Naturalism and representative is a way of painting creativity, these two themes can be a painter narrative act to pour a story of everything at their painting.
Since inclusion of Western culture in Bali’s life in year 1926 and 1928, Bali began to introduce with painting in three dimension look. This style had been brought by Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet. Lighting, coloring, and arrangement of space in Bali’s painting are begun to modernize. Painting object orientation is lead to become freedom choice in a painting. Effort in earning standard and quality of Bali’s paintings is about to find its way.
Travelling to Bedugul will provide a distinctive satisfaction; the way of natural treatment of an attractive view and a blush of a windy valley, could contribute calmness. Good weather and climate which supported by fertile ground condition, giving this land with agriculture commodity value and beauty sight for Bali tourism. Various kinds of vegetables, leaves, and flowers that essential factor of plants is definitely could turned by a nature for doing something glamour to a visitors. And Chrysantemum is one of so many beautiful plants in Bedugul that will be a theme of this article. Having itself as a perennial herb plant, Chrysantemums could be growing in perennial land with tropical till subtropical climate. Sometimes people called this plant as Mums only. Include in family of Asteraceae, Chrysantemums are native to Asia and Northern Europe country. China is a country of Chrysantemum nativity and a land where this plant had founded for the first time. Then on its history, Chrysantemum had brought to Japan and became inspiring a Festival of Happiness in Japan. Been adopted to Europe make this plant having a name as Chrysantemum (“Chrysous” = gold as a first colour from first variety, and “Antemon” = flower).
In the review of the cultural event Pesta Kesenian Bali 2009 this time, will be appointed on the theme of dance “Leko”. This dance is one of so many Balinese ancient dances which might has already rare to be performed and not much known by Balinese society. Today, Leko dance could be found only at Jembrana, regency at Western area of Bali.