A Visual Narrative of the Wedding Ceremony in Damar Kurung Paintings

Aniendya  Christianna; Acep  Iwan Saidi; Riama  Maslan Sihombing

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A Visual Narrative of the Wedding Ceremony in Damar Kurung Paintings

Authors:

Aniendya Christianna | Acep Iwan Saidi | Riama Maslan Sihombing

Publisher:

KnE Social Sciences

Journal:

KnE Social Sciences Vol.7 Issue 13, pp.131-139

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2022

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001519225

pISSN:

2518-668X

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Abstract:

 Traditional ceremonies in Javanese culture occur according to the phases of human life, starting from mitoni or tingkeban (the seven-months pregnancy ceremony), to baby birth ceremonies, circumcision, marriage and lastly the funeral ceremony. In traditional thinking, marriage is one of the most important phases of life apart from birth and death, because in marriage, two people are united to commit to building a family/household and producing a new generation. In Gresik, East Java, there is a traditional wedding ceremony called Kemanten Joli. This traditional ceremony is rarely held and official documentation about it is difficult to find. An art maestro named Sriati Masmundari has documented this traditional ceremony several times through Damar Kurung paintings. Damar Kurung is a traditional Gresik lantern. Each side of the lantern is decorated with paintings depicting socio-cultural events in Gresik. This was qualitative research with an interpretative descriptive approach, where the visual data of Damar Kurung paintings were analyzed using a visual narrative. Expectation, attention, and memory analysis methods revealed the narrative of the Kemanten Joli wedding ceremony diachronically. The results confirmed that the visual elements in Damar Kurung painting are symbolic and interrelated to produce a complete narrative series. The visual narrative analysis showed that the static paintings can contain dynamic space and time narratives, which can depict the stages of the otherwise undocumented Kemanten Joli wedding ceremony.

Article Details

A Visual Narrative of the Wedding Ceremony in Damar Kurung Paintings

Authors:

Aniendya Christianna | Acep Iwan Saidi | Riama Maslan Sihombing

Publisher:

KnE Social Sciences

Journal:

KnE Social Sciences Vol.7 Issue 13, pp.131-139

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2022

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001519225

pISSN:

2518-668X

visual narrative

wedding ceremony

Damar Kurung

art history

Issues

Article Details

A Visual Narrative of the Wedding Ceremony in Damar Kurung Paintings

Authors: Aniendya Christianna | Acep Iwan Saidi | Riama Maslan Sihombing

Publisher: KnE Social Sciences

Journal: KnE Social Sciences Vol.7 Issue 13, pp.131-139

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 11/2022

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001519225

pISSN: 2518-668X

visual narrative

wedding ceremony

Damar Kurung

art history

Issues

Authors:

Aniendya Christianna | Acep Iwan Saidi | Riama Maslan Sihombing

Publisher:

KnE Social Sciences

Journal:

KnE Social Sciences Vol.7 Issue 13, pp.131-139

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2022

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001519225

pISSN:

2518-668X