Museum Lukisan Sidik Jari I Gusti Ngurah Gede Pemecutan di Lukisan

25 October 2023 | Destination

I Gusti Ngurah Gede Pemecutan secara tak sengaja menemukan teknik melukis yang unik, menggunakan sidik jari. Suatu ketika ia marah karena lukisan tari baris miliknya gagal, tak sesuai harapan. Merasa tak puas, pelukis kelahiran 4 Juli 1936 ini 'merusak' lukisan itu dengan jari-jarinya.

Siapa sangka itu menjadi kali pertama Ngurah menetapkan diri sebagai pelukis aliran pointilisme, gaya melukis dengan menyatukan titik-titik sebagai elemen dasar sebuah lukisan. Jika sebagian besar pelukis pointilisme menggunakan kuas untuk membentuk titik, Ngurah menggunakan telunjuk.

Sidik jari Ngurah sesekali membekas di kanvas lukisnya. Ini pula yang membuat karya seni Ngurah tak bisa dipalsukan.

Mula-mula Ngurah mengolesi ujung jarinya dengan cat aneka warna. Jemarinya bekerja mengikuti imajinasi lukisan yang ada di benaknya.

Lukisan sidik jari Ngurah pertama kali diapresiasi seorang jurnalis Amerika Serikat yang menerbitkan kisahnya di Majalah Horizon. Pada 1969, Konsulat Amerika Serikat di Surabaya kemudian memamerkan lukisan-lukisan Ngurah.

Ngurah mengumpulkan seluruh karyanya dalam sebuah musem bernama Museum Lukisan Sidik jari pada 1994. Orang-orang pertama kali mungkin merasa awam saat mendengarnya. Di museum ini, mereka bisa belajar mengenal teknik melukis, sekaligus berwisata budaya.

Museum yang terletak di Jalan Hayam Wuruk Nomor 175, Tanjung Bungkah, Denpasar ini memiliki tiga ruang utama yang menampung lebih dari 649 lukisan. Ruang pertama memamerkan kronologis Ngurah memoles karya lukisnya sejak duduk di bangku SMP hingga menjadi pelukis sukses.

Ruang kedua memamerkan transisi Ngurah saat menemukan teknik melukis dengan sidik jari. Ruang ketiga memamerkan lukisan-lukisan indah Ngurah yang seluruhnya menggunakan sidik jari. Ngurah mengantongi piagam penghargaan dari Museum Rekor Dunia (Muri) Indonesia selaku pelopor teknik melukis dengan jari, sekaligus kolektor sidik jari terbanyak pada Juli 2012.

Selain lukisan, Museum Lukisan Sidik Jari juga memamerkan kerajinan seni pahat, seperti patung kayu, topeng, bahkan ragam puisi yang dituliskan pada batu. Museum ini buka setiap hari kecuali hari libur, mulai pukul 09.00 hingga 16.00 WITA. Pengunjung tak dipungut biaya khusus untuk masuk.

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The Finger Print Painting Museum

The story about this museum begin when I Gusti Ngurah Gede Pemecutan was unpurposedly found a very unique technique for painting, using his fingers. So, the story was one day he was get upset to see his Lining up Dancing Painting is not as he expected, then he broke that painting with his fingers.

That moment, he found the beauty of finger paintings, and that become the moment that he declared him self as a pointilism painter, the painter who paint with points, joining the dots and become a basic element for the painting. The difference is, some of the pointilism painter still using brush to joint the dots, Ngurah using his point finger.

Ngurah, who was born in July 4th 1936, started his artwork by applying the paints on his finger, then he start to use it as a brush and paint on the canvas. His fingerprint also painted on the painting, that makes it very unique and hard to be copied.

It was one American Journalist, who curated and appreciated his paintings, and wrote about it in Horizon Magazine, then in 1969, The American Consulate in surabaya made a special exhibition for his paintings.

Ngurah collecting all his work of art in a museum in Bali, he named it as Finger Print Painting Museum, in 1994. People was feel curious since it was never been such a finger painting, but then, it become one of tourism destination because they know something new when visiting this museum.

Located in Hayam Wuruk Street 175, Tanjung Bungkah, Denpasar, this museum has 3 main rooms which contains more tan 649 paintings. First section showing the story of Ngurah, when he started his painting work since he was in junior high school until he become a famous one.

Second section showing Ngurah’s transition when he found a unique technique to paint with his fingers. Third section is showing his beautiful work of art. Ngurah also achieve an award from the Indonesia Record Museum as the founder of finger painting technique, also as the one who has the largest number of finger painting collections in July 2012.

Beside paintings, The finger print painting museum also has sculptures art, masks, even poems that wrote on top of a stone. You can visit it for free, and they are opens daily from 9am – 4pm, except holiday.

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