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PITA_MAHA

                                                  May  01, 2006
                                     Additions:   June 14, 2006


Walter Spies, might best be
described as a multi-media             Spies was nominally
artist, though he's sometimes          German, so his name
pigeon-holed as a "German              rhymes with "peas".
Expressionist painter".

   One of the things he's
   known for though -- or that
   he should be known for --
   is his work on the Kecak.

              FIRE_DANCE

   At some point in these researches,
   it dawned on me that I was looking
   at a Scene...

   There was a group of artists and
   intellectuals (some westerners,
   some locals), who were working in
   Bali in the Ubud/Campuhan area
   in the 1920s and 30s.

     This was roughly the same
     time as the Lost Generation
     group was active in Paris.

     Is the Campuhan scene
     a branch of the Lost                  (And were the Existentialists
     Generation, or a scene                an entirely different
     of it's own?                          group, in spite of being
                                           located in Paris also?)
            How many others were
            there?   Berlin?  Moscow?


                              ^
                influence            isolation
                           o     o

                       <             >

                           o     o
                 identity            difference
                              v



Some names,
from this scene
(a melange of
core members
and visitors):                         From a few sources,
                                       but largely:

         performing arts:              "Walter Spies and Balinese
                                       Art" (1980) by Hans Rhodius
         Charlie Chaplin               and John Darling
         Noel Coward
         Ruth Draper                        OFF_OFF_CAMERA
         Vicki Baum
           wrote "A Tale of Bali"
                ("with W.S. help")
           also  "Grand Hotel"

         Margaret Mead
           (anthropologist)

         Claire Holt
         Jane Belo
         Colin McPhee
         Miguel and Rose Covarrubias

         Barbara Hutton
          (bought paintings)

         Dutch visitors:
         Stutterheim
            (headed East Indies
            Archeological Service)
         Jaap Kunst
         Dr. Goris
         Grader and Jacobs
           (administrators)

       Founding members of the
       "Pita Maha" group:                      (According to
                                               historical
         Walter Spies                          information at
         Rudolf Bonet                          the Hotel
         Tjokorda Gde Agung Sukawati           Tjampuhan.)

       which "fostered and promoted":

         I Gusti Nyoman Lempad
         Made Poleng
         Gusti Ketut Kobot
         Gusti Made Deblong



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