Among the available wayang, wayang kulit purwa has the most audiences almost the whole part of mainland of Java, Madura and Bali. Wayang kulit tells about heroic and romantic stories of two wiracarita sources, i.e. Mahabarata and Ramayana. These stories came from India, but with the skill of local genius people, predecessors of java community changed them carrefully and made them sociable and adjust them to the community's wisdom, that the stories are worthy of performance in various purposes. The change made by the Javanese ancestors was not only limited to story material, but also on visualization of wayang figure is the work of Javanese ancestors.
The Indonesian language general dictionary states that Wayang is a Man-made figure of carved leather or wood and used to play the role of figure in the traditional drama show (Javanese, Sundanese, Maduranese and Balinese). The figures are usually played by a dalang. Wayang Kulit means wayang made of leather, and Wayang Purwa means wayang kulit telling the stories in the old days.
Wayang Kulit is a flat-shaped wayang figure and made of leather, in it is wayang-shaped element, tatahan (inlaid)and sunggingan (decorated). The form of wayang represents the shape that determines the type of its figure and wanda (facial expression). Decoration for wayang is an art of decoration having the shape of krawangan (air brick) that is complex and beautiful. Seen from behind screen is more interesting when the wayang figure is performed, while the sunggingan wayang is a various colors of the whole part of the wayang using an arranged color technique.
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