Puppet Arts In Development Of Modern Art In Indonesia

Indonesia is one country in ASIA that rich in art, culture and traditions. One of the traditional wealth inherited from ancient Indonesian nation is the art of puppet called wayang. Puppet Wayang is one of the original performing arts are very popular in Indonesia, especially in Java. The beauty and uniqueness of Indonesia’s puppet art has gained recognition from UNESCO as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity is the art of storytelling and become a world cultural heritage that should be preserved. In addition, UNESCO also includes puppets into the Representative List of Cultural Heritage is not the object of Man in 2003.Puppet Wayang thought to exist in Indonesia since the beginning of the Hindu civilization of India into Indonesia Therefore, the performance of wayang stories often use the story Ramayana and Mahabharata as a background story. When Islamic culture began to enter Indonesia, puppet Wayang change of shape and a more populist story and no longer use as a background story of Hindu culture. Puppet is also often used as a medium to spread the religion of Islam, especially on the island of Java.Puppet Wayang in modern times is now beginning to lose its luster as the Indonesian performing arts. Technological developments and global culture, began to erode the existence of puppets in the realm of art and culture of Indonesia. Even so, some of the young artist of Indonesia has started being raised back puppets with different dimensions, namely through the Indonesian modern art. Many talented young Indonesian artists who raised the puppet culture as the object of their work. Puppet deformed shape to a more modern direction so as to be accepted in a global culture, especially the world of art.The relationship between the puppet Wayang art can be seen from the many artists Indonesian artists who use puppets as the object of painting. As heri dono, indieguerillas, agus Nuryanto and other artists. Puppet Wayang who is closely associated with traditional culture, they scratched in the works so that it looks modern and can keep up with the times. Painting is not only shown in scratches on canvas only, but also in the art of glass painting a very typical in Indonesia. puppet has become a symbol that represents the social and cultural life of the community, and Indonesian art can describe the correlation of all aspects of the life.The relationship puppet Wayang with modern Indonesian art also can be seen not only in the form of painting alone. The result of subsequent developments, puppets also transformed to a more complex so appear puppet sand and digital puppet. Puppet sand is the art of puppet show which combines the art of drawing on the sand with the help of technology. Digital Wayang is a puppet in the form of a comic or a computer program that is distributed with the help of internet. Puppet relationship with art has produced a list of new art in Indonesia. Unique traditional culture that can be collaborated with modern art, is unique which only Indonesia and are not owned by other countries.This thesis is divided into several sections explanation. The first part is described a brief history of the Indonesian wayang puppet with three samples that wayang beber which has a very close relationship with art, the second and third wayang kulit puppet show. The second part of the development of modern art in Indonesia. the third part is that becomes the central point in the preparation of this lunwen The influence of art and culture is the puppet Wayang of the development of modern art Indonesia. the last part is an explanation of the alternative art born of the development of Indonesian puppets Wayang.