Cultural Acculturation in The Ornamental Art of The Kudus Traditional House

Keywords

Decoration, ornamental, Wuwungan, Kudus, Acculturation

Abstract

The decoration made by the Javanese community is a work of art and culture inherited from generation to generation where it has uniqueness and characteristic which contains the content of story and deep values concerning aesthetic, symbolic, and philosophical. The existence of ornamental art that has been there cannot be separated by the acculturation of other cultures where the cultural process takes place in the life of Javanese society who always open themselves to accept change for development. One of the various ornaments created is Wuwungan ornamental art on the roof of traditional house Kudus which has a very distinctive form that is not owned by other areas, so the visualization is very interesting to be studied scientifically. This study provides qualitative explanation, so the method used is qualitative with historical approach method, architecture, philosophy, and aesthetics to analyze and know the concept of ornamental form that visualization of ornamental variety acculturate with previous culture seen in important parts in Kudus traditional house. The results of the study conducted in order to find the shape concept and concept of ornamental art philosophy Wuwungan custom house Kudus that reflects the noble values of Javanese cultural teachings as a strength of local identity in the life of the global community

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Arif Suharson
AU  - Dharsono
AU  - Nanik Prihatini
AU  - Bambang Sunarto
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Cultural Acculturation in The Ornamental Art of The Kudus Traditional House
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Bandung Creative Movement International Conference on Creative Industries 2018 (5th BCM 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 75
EP  - 80
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125910917
ID  - Suharson2019/07
ER  -