THE INTERPRETATION OF JOGLO BUILDING HOUSE ART IN THE JAVANESE CULTURAL TRADITION

Abstract

Traditional Javanese house is basically a complex entity in which the shape and structure and function are closely related to each other. The composition of the space consists of space front and back of the house. Front of the house called pendhapa or omah ngarep associated imaginatively as a form of phallus, allegedly imitation male genitalia, so it is a symbol of virility. On the other hand dalem identical women, with characteristic senthong middle, there is a hole in the center, decorated with beautiful, rounded shape kenongan, sacred. All these indicators illustrate imaginative forms of yoni, the female genitals alleged impersonation. Traditional Javanese house thus embodies the notion of gender, human form of personification. This understanding is nothing but an attempt to align between the big world (the house) with the inhabitants (small world), in other words the world is an artificial world of small, meant to be together.

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