Indonesia has a long history of stone, bronze and iron ages
arts. The megalithic sculptures can be found in numerous archaeological sites
in Sumatra, Java to Sulawesi. The native Indonesians tribes have their own
distinct tribal sculpture styles, usually created to depict ancestors, deities
and animals. The pre-Hindu-Budhist and pre-Islamic sculptures can be traced in
the artworks of indigenous Indonesian tribes. The most notable sculptures are
those of Asmat wooden sculpture of Papua, the Dayak wooden mask and sculpture,
the ancestral wooden statue of Toraja, also the totem-like sculpture of Batak
and Nias tribe.
The stone sculpture artform particularly flourished in
8th-to-10th-century Java and Bali, which demonstrate the influences of
Hindu-Buddhist culture, both as stand-alone works of art and also incorporated
into temples. Most notable sculpture of classical Hindu-Buddhist era of
Indonesia are the hundreds of meters of relief and hundreds of stone buddhas at
the temple of Borobudur in central Java. Approximately two miles of exquisite
relief sculpture tell the story of the life of Buddha and illustrate his
teachings. The temple was originally home to 504 statues of the seated Buddha.
This site, as with others in central Java, show a clear Indian influence. The
examples of notable Indonesian Hindu-Buddhist sculptures are; the statues of
Hindu deities; Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Durga, Ganesha and Agastya enthroned in
rooms of Prambanan temples, the Vishnu mounting Garuda statue of king
Airlangga, the exquisite statue of Eastern Javanese Prajnaparamita and 3.7
meters tall Dvarapala dated from Singhasari period, and also the grand statue
of Bhairava Adityawarman discovered in Sumatra. Today, the Hindu-Buddhist style
stone sculptures are reproduced in villages in Muntilan near Borobudur also in
Bali, and sold as garden or pool ornament statues for homes, offices and
hotels.
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