Spirit And Figure of Ratu Kalinyamat in Contemporary Batik

Abstract

. Creativity in creating and producing the contemporary batik originated from traditional arts, either its form, ideas for creation, or historical reference of the local figuration of Ratu Kalinyamat, is an effort to promote and to popularize batik by making innovation on the decorative designs, to the common people and to the industrial community of Nusantara batik. The batik artists are the main character in the promotion of traditional batik publicly. The community is a group of artists who play the role to create the trend of decorative motifs in order that the popularity of the traditional batiks wrapped in contemporary crafts can be meaningful things to the batik fanatics. The personal and social interaction within the artists cycles when creating batik originated from the traditional artworks and the values of traditional arts on the contemporary batik works, it is interesting to be scrutinized as sociological analysis or arts. In addition to viewing the social correlation between batik artists and the artworks lovers, it also is aimed at understanding the meaning of the traditional arts ideas originated from Ratu Kalinyamat created through the form of contemporary batik. Thus, we find out that the ideas coming from the traditional arts are the main foundation of the contemporary batik creation.