Mahabharata Kamasan Painting: Bali’s Version of India’s Epic War
A Mahabharata Kamasan painting depicts scenes from the Mahabharata, the 18-book Sanskrit epic about a war between two royal families, painted in Kamasan style: flat wayang-shaped figures, natural pigments, and gold leaf, the same visual language Bali uses for its shadow puppets. It’s one of Kamasan painting’s two core source epics, the other being the […]

























