VERTICAL TIME LINE / History of Art ( Indonesia)
Basic selection
| PRE HISTORIC | ||||
| Palaeolithic | -1900000 | Hunting and food gathering | Life of the pre historic humans | |
| – how they live (nomads) | ||||
| – Fossils, Reconstructions | ||||
| – hunting activities | ||||
| – Dynamism | ||||
| – 10000 | – simple stone tools | |||
| Mezolithic | Advanced hunting and food gathering | Life of the caveman | ||
| Prehistoric art | ||||
| – stone art | ||||
| – cave paintings -8000 | ||||
| – pottery for ancestor worship | ||||
| Religious life | ||||
| – animism | ||||
| – primus inter pares | ||||
| Neolithic | -3000 | agriculture | First settlements | |
| – ancestor worship system | ||||
| – animism | ||||
| – domestication | ||||
| – old megalithic dynamics | ||||
| – burnished stone tools | ||||
| – reciprosity system (barter) | ||||
| – first contact with India in Bali
(Arikamedu potsherds on sites in Sembiran, Bali) |
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| Bronze
Iron age |
-1000 | craftmanship | – Metal art | |
| – first contact with other nations | ||||
| – advanced economic system | ||||
| – young megalithic dynamics | ||||
| – ancestral statues | ||||
| Ritual tools | ||||
| – dolmens, menhirs, altars) | ||||
| – Buddha Statue from Bukit Siguntang, Palembang | ||||
| – Sempaga statue, South Sulawesi | ||||
| – Palaeometalic | ||||
| Dongsong culture | ||||
| – bronze kettle drums | ||||
| +100 | Proto historic | Not many artifacts available | ||
| +400 | HISTORIC | |||
| Classical
Period/ Hindu -Buddha period |
Ancient Kutai kingdom
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Early kingdoms, 4-7 | ||
| – ancient Kutai Kingdom (the Yupa inscription ) 5 MN | ||||
| +500 | Tarumanegara Kingdom | – Tarumanagara Kingdom (Ciaruten inscription in Bogor) | ||
| – many inscriptions at different sites | ||||
| +700 | – statue of Wisnu from Cibuaya MN | |||
| Batujaya site | Architecture of brick temple | |||
| – Batujaya ± 7 (Rengasdengklok | ||||
| +800 | Sriwijaya kingdom | Sriwijaya (682-1300) | ||
| – Telagabatu inscription MN | ||||
| – Bronze statues of the Buddhist deities) | ||||
| Ancient Mataram kingdom
Borobudur temple Prambanan temple
Ancient Bali
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Sculptural arts ( 8-10) | |||
| Early classical architecture 700-750 | ||||
| – temples at the Dieng plateau 8 | ||||
| – Gedong Songo 8 | ||||
| – Badut temple in Malang | ||||
| Relief art( 8 – 10) | ||||
| – Borobudur temple(824-842) | ||||
| –Mendut temple (824-842) | ||||
| -Prambanan temple(856 -929) | ||||
| Ancient Bali 8-11 | ||||
| -Goa Gajah (Bali) +8 | ||||
| – Gunung Kawi ( Bali) +11 | ||||
| – Hindu-Buddhist statues | ||||
| +1200 | Kadiri kingdom
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Kadiri kingdom 12 | ||
| – stone granary, metal sound block, Bell. | ||||
| – ancient Javanese literature | ||||
| +1300 | Singhasari kingdoms
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Singhasari kingdoms 13 | ||
| – Kidal temple, Jago temple (Malang) | ||||
| – Jawi temple (Pasuruan) | ||||
| – Singhasari temple (Malang) | ||||
| – many statues at MN | ||||
| Samudra Pasai the first sultanate | Samudra Pasai 13 | |||
| – tombstone replicas from the Samudra Pasai sultanate MN | ||||
| +1415 | The great Majapahit kingdom
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Mandala/ Kadewaguruan ( early educational system in the classical period) (1400-1500) | ||
| Performing arts – view data 1400-1500 | ||||
| The great majapahit 14-15 | ||||
| – Panataran temple complex (blitar) | ||||
| – Trowulan Site, (Mojokerto) | ||||
| – Kakawin Nagarakertagama -poetry about the regions of the GM) (perpustakaan nasional) | ||||
| – many statues at MN | ||||
| The fall of the classical era & GM | ||||
| – Sukuh temple -Karanganyar(15) | ||||
| – stepped terraces at the Penanggungan mountain | ||||
| China & the Majapahit | China & the Majapahit (1500) | |||
| +1500 | – artifacts in MN |
| Developmentof the Islamic kingdom
Colonial era I
(interaction of colonial goverment with local kingdoms) |
+1500 | Kerajaan
Islam Merdeka (the period of the independent Islamic Kingdoms)
|
Islamization 15-16 | |
| – early Islam ( Wali Songo) | ||||
| old Mosque architecture 15 | ||||
| – Demak | ||||
| – Cirebon | ||||
| – Kudus | ||||
| Gede Ing Suro, the founding father of the early Islamic kingdom in Palembang (1455) | ||||
| Islamic Religious figure in Palembang | ||||
| Sultanate Era in Palembang | ||||
| – the minaret of the old great mosque | ||||
| – old Mosque in Lawang Kidul at the banks of the Musi river | ||||
| – the fort of Kuto Besak | ||||
| – the Cinde Walang tombs, the tombs of the first sultan in Palembang | ||||
| – the sultanate cemetery (Kawah Tengkurep) in Boombaru | ||||
| – Banten (old mosque with minaret( lighthouse) 1600 | ||||
| – Banten Palaces | ||||
| – Cemetry of the Sultans of Banten | ||||
| Portuguese in the Moluccas | Portuguese in the Moluccas 15 | |||
| – padrao inscription (Sunda Pajajaran | ||||
| – the Tugu church | ||||
| +1596 | Cornelis de Houtman (the first Dutch Armada) | |||
| +1600 | Demak sultanate
Ternate sultanate Tidore sultanate Mataram Sultanate |
Islamic Kingdoms 18 | ||
| – the Goa Kingdom in Makassar | ||||
| – ternate Sultanate & Tidore sultanate 16-17 | ||||
| Colonial era
II |
+1700 | The Hongi shippingline patrolling system era 17 | ||
| – Mataram: Sultan Agung | ||||
| The division of the Mataram Sultanate (Giyanti Charter,1755):
Yogyakarta & Surakarta |
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| Islamic Art | ||||
| +1800 | Islamic performing art : music, dance,theatre (many data available) | |||
| Pesantren ( Islamic education system) | ||||
| Raffles Era (1811-1816) | ||||
| National
Movement era 1908 |
+1900 | The fall of the last local kingdom | – the Aceh sultanate 1896
(by the dutch) |
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| – the Bali kingdom1908
(by the dutch) |
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| Batavia | the Batavia era (17-1945) | |||
| – Old dutch architecture | ||||
| – Urban planning |
| +1945 | Old government era
modern era |
Old government movement 1945-1966 | ||
| – idiology & style | ||||
| – visual arts education | ||||
| – Persagi (visual arts) | ||||
| – Pelukis Rakyat (visual arts) | ||||
| – Lekra (political) | ||||
| – Manikebu (political) | ||||
| New government era
post modern era |
New government movement 1966 -1998 | |||
| The new visual arts movement 1975 | ||||
| – literature / ngo´s | ||||
| – Golput : Golongan putih
Social politics/ human rights |
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| Resistency artists | ||||
| Aggressive art movement | ||||
| +1998 | reformation era
collaboration era (post reformation) modern era |
Installation art | ||
| +2000 | digital art |