Ida Bagus Made Togog (1913–1989) was born into a noble

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clan in the center of Batuan. Together with I Ngendon, he was one of the foremost painters from Batuan. Unlike Ngendon, Togog was not particularly interested in Western ideas. He was comfortable with the Balinese way of life and adhered closely to the Balinese belief system. As a member of the high priest family, Togog was very familiar with Balinese lontar (religious literature) and Balinese myths and folklore. His works were primarily drawn from religion and local myths from an insider's view point and he narrates them through his drawings, just like in the Wayang tradition. The strength of his drawings was neither his draftsmanship nor composition, but his narration of complex religious beliefs and the united life in Bali as a balance between the macrocosm and microcosm, between the benevolent and good spirits. According to Wim Bakker, it was the Dutch painter

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, who inspired him to translate images in Balinese lontars into drawings. During 1936 to 1938, he was befriended by

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and

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and produced 83 paintings for them. As Bateson and Mead went to

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to do research on Balinese character, they requested Togog to give an expression of his dreams. He produced a large number of drawings on dreams and his own interpretation in the context of Balinese beliefs as he understood it. His works can be found in

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and in the Rudolf Bonnet collection at the Ethnography Museum in

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, the Netherlands. In Bali, his can be viewed at the

Puri Lukisan Museum The Puri Lukisan Ratna Wartha Museum (; Balinese script: ᬫᬸᬲᬾᬬᬸᬫ᭄ᬧᬸᬭᬶᬮᬸᬓᬶᬲᬦ᭄ᬭᬢ᭄ᬦᬯᬃᬡ) is the oldest art museum in Bali which specialize in modern traditional Balinese paintings and wood carvin ...

and the

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(ARMA) in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Togog, Ida Bagus Made Artists from Bali 20th-century Indonesian painters 20th-century Indonesian male artists 20th-century Dutch East Indies people Indonesian Hindus People from Gianyar Regency 1913 births 1989 deaths Balinese people