I Ketut Soki

I Ketut Soki (Balinese, born 1946) is a successful artist from Bali. [cite web
url=http://www.museumneka.com/ArtistDetails.asp?keywords2=I+Ketut+Soki&Name=I%20Ketut%20Soki
title=The Development of Painting in Bali
publisher=Neka Art Museum, Bali
accessdate=2008-05-04] [cite web
title=Young Artist Painter
url=http://www.bali-travelnews.com/Batrav/Batrav164/art.htm
publisher=www.bali-travelnews.com
accessdate=2008-05-04] [cite web
last=O'Neill
first=Nick
title=Important people in Bali: Arie Smit | Bali Blog
url=http://www.baliblog.com/history/important-people-in-bali-arie-smit.html
publisher=www.baliblog.com
accessdate=2008-05-04] As a boy, he was one of the first two children to receive art lessons from the famous artist Arie Smit, and so one of the founders of the "Young Artists" movement.

In 1960, Arie Smit went for a walk through the rice fields in Penestanan, Bali, and found a young boy drawing pictures in the sand. Smit invited the boy to his studio and gave him crayons and paper. The name of the young boy was I Nyoman Cakra. As a true Balinese, Nyoman didn't want to be alone, so he asked, "Can my nephew come too?" His nephew was I Ketut Soki [cite web
last=Soki
first=Ketut
authorlink=I Ketut Soki
title=Pak Soki. Artist from Penestanan, the 'Village of Young Artists'
url=http://www.ketutsoki.com/
publisher=I Ketut Soki
accessdate=2008-05-04] and these two youths became Smit's first pupils. [cite web
last=Hollitzer
first=Annemarie
title=Arie Smit
url=http://www.asiafoto.com/article1.htm
publisher=www.asiafoto.com
accessdate=2008-05-04]

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