Report Text : The Chinese Influence in Indonesian Visual Art

Education English | Report Text : The Chinese Influence in Indonesian Visual Art | Chinese culture played a truly significant role in the development of visual art in Indonesia although not as strong as the Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim influences. Many Chinese culture form of artistic expression were adapted and assimilated into indigenous form. The Chinese influence was restricted to an adapted form.

The architectural elements in some temples for example, reveal Chinese influence. It is identical to the original models found in mainland China. In Gianyar Bali, strong links between the Chinese and local people are evidenced by the Chinese-style roofing on the palace that was rebuilt at the end of the last century. In Cirebon, China designs were copied by local ceramics and paintings. Chinese influence also occurs in textile, furniture and household objects.
Adapted from Indonesian Heritage: Visual Art, 2003

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Report Text : Percussion Instruments

Education English | Report Text : Percussion Instruments | Percussion means striking. All percussion instruments make musical sounds when struck by the hands, by the fingers, or by some suitable implement.

Bells and gongs, bars of wood or metal, and even bowls and thin stones make fine percussion instruments. The orchestras of Eastern people sometimes have a wonderful variety of these and other kinds of percussion instruments, including drums of every size and shape. But in

Western symphony orchestra percussion instruments are not very numerous. The bowl-shaped kettledrums, or timpani, are .almost always present. They give a clear, definite note and a sonorous tone that can be as soft or as loud as the player wishes.

Other types of drums may also be used. Cymbals are brass plates that are clashed or jangled together. The triangle is a metal rod left open at the corner. The xylophone is a row of wooden bars. The glockenspiel has metal bars that sound ringing and enchanting. It is often played by a keyboard, called a celesta. Only the kettledrums are regular percussion sections of the orchestra in Western music.
Adapted from The Instruments of Music
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Education english | report text : Woodcraft

Education English | Report Text : Woodcraft | The developing of wood in Indonesia from earliest times, provided the people with the raw materials to produce functional and artistic artefacts. Many motifs found in prehistoric artefact used bronze in woodcarving. Indian influences from around the first century AD led to the developing of a new designs.

Introduction of Islam in the 21th century made some of the designs were lost. The existing motifs that remain today are influenced most with religious style.

Climatic condition problem have eliminated some remain of wooden artefacts from a very early date, it’s not leaving many evidence, but it seemed the woodcarving was an early form of artistic expression. So, we have known now that woodcarving is an old art and keep developing into many form and designs.
Adapted from Indonesian Heritage: Visual Art, 2003

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Report Text : Rock Music

Education English | Report Text : Rock Music | Rock music is part of popular music today. It is played and listened in almost every countries in the world. Rock and roll was the name given to the music that developed in the early 1950’s. It is believed that the term rock and roll was first used by a disk jockey, Alan Freed.

In 1955, records of a young singer from Tennessee, Elvis Presley, were heard across the US. After he appeared on nation-wide television, Elvis Presley’s singing and his performing style came to mean rock and roll all over the world. Then came Bill Haley and

The Comets. Rock mainly became the music of the young. They understood its beat and sound, and its lyrics.

The 1970’s were the time of big developments in the rock industry. Rock became a very big business, earned more money annually than any other form of entertainment including the film industry.
Taken from The Book of Knowledge, 2007

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Report Text : Musical Instruments

Education English | Report Text : Musical Instruments | There are five main groups of musical instruments. They are stringed instruments, wind instruments, percussion instruments, keyboard instruments, and electronic instruments.

Stringed instruments make tones when the player makes one or more string vibrate. The violin, cello, and guitar are stringed instruments. Wind instruments are played by blowing into or through a tube.

The player controls the sound by placing the fingers on holes in the instrument or on keys that cover holes, or by pressing valves that make the tube longer or shorter. The flute, trumpet and saxophone are wind instruments.

Percussion instruments have keys connected with a part that makes tones. The musician presses the keys to make sounds. The piano, harp, and pipe organ are keyboard instruments.

Electronic instruments use electricity to make sounds or to make the sounds louder. Electric guitars, synthesizers, electronic pianos, and electronic organs are electronic instruments.
Adapted from The World Book Encyclopedia, 2007

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Report Text : Indonesian Art

Education English | Report Text : Indonesian Art | The earliest Indonesian art marked by cave paintings and the arts of the pre-Hindu period. Then came after various design influences – Hindu Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, and Western; all of these helped to shape the development of what we now see as traditional art.

However, one must remember that there are more than 300 diverse ethnic groups in the archipelago which have, in their own ways, played a fundamental role in the development of Indonesian traditional and modern art.
Adapted from Indonesian Heritage: Visual Art, 2003

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