Kamasan is a village on

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. It is situated just to the north of Gelgel, in the

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regency. Kamasan has a cultural importance on a Bali-wide level. The various 'traditional' styles of painting on modern Bali are derived from the ''Kamasan style'', which in turn takes it patterns from ancient

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. Historically, artists from Kamasan were used by the many

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courts that existed on Bali up to the early twentieth century. The village also provided gold- and silversmiths, dancers, musicians and puppeteers. The painters have a particular ward in Kamasan, the Banjar Sangging. The smiths are located in another ward, the Banjar Pande Mas.Eric Oey, ''Bali, Island of the Gods''. Singapore: Periplus 1990, p. 169.

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