[1] As a child, he was exposed to various forms of art such as shadow puppet performances and sacred dances at the village's temples.
Sobrat and his neighbor Anak Agung Gde Meregeg were the first two artists in Padangtegal to meet Walter Spies, at the end of the 1920s.
[2] Spies was a German artist who together with Rudolf Bonnet was thought to be the agent of change for the modernization of Balinese art.
In the early 1930s, Bonnet considered him to be the most talented Balinese artist of the period for his drawing skill, color composition and his versatility.
Bonnet once wrote that Anak Agung Gde Sobrat was the most talented artist in Bali.