Affandi (1907 - May 23, 1990) is an Indonesian artist. Born in Cirebon, West Java, as the son of R. Koesoema, who was a surveyor in the local sugar mill, Affandi finishing high school in Jakarta to fulfill his desire to become an artist. Beginning in 1934, Affandi began to seriously study painting. He married Maryati, a fellow artist. His daughter Kartika also became an artist.
In 1950, Affandi began to make paintings expressionist. At the time of his first grandson was born (1953) began a new style of painting with a direct hit from the paint tube of her. He came across this technique by accident, when he intends to draw the line. When he lost his temper when he was looking for a lost pencil, he applied paint directly from the tube of her. The resulting effect, because he knows, is that the painted objects look more vivid. He also felt more freedom to express his feelings when he used his own hands, instead of a paint brush. In particular, he has felt same to Vincent van Gogh.
Like most contemporary of Indonesia, Affandi grew up disconnected from the mainstream of modern art. Not until the late 1930s that the first exhibition of major Western artists - from Gauguin to Kandinsky and Picasso - was held in Batavia (now Jakarta). Affandi particularly fascinated by Javanese wayang, he toured with his family to Bandung and then to Batavia, honing skills of drawing and then painting with oil paints. By the time he began painting seriously in 1940, sometimes a painter, guard cinema tickets, collectors, and painted billboards. He will keep the remaining paint on the poster and other work and paint landscapes. Soon he began to pick with the consent of his wife, he decided to devote the first ten days of each month for the trade and the remaining twenty days to paint.
One day he saw a magazine art from London. He was impressed with the Impressionist, by Goya and Edvard Munch, and the previous master, Breughel, Hieronymus Bosch and Botticelli. Their influence is starting to show in his paintings. But the grim reality unpleasant experiences about Affandi imprint on his heart, in the town of Yogjakarta one day, after the Pacific War, Affandi sitting paint market atmosphere in which the people who are disappointed and hard in a state of starvation and half-naked. Angry at his indifference seemed Affandi, angry youths were throwing dust in the artist and the canvas and shouted: "This guy is crazy! .. We were naked and starving, he painted us on canvas and create a painting that bad that we can not understand"
The year's most creative natural Affandi in India, where he traveled and painted from 1949 to 1951. From there he went to Europe, showing his paintings in major cities (Paris, London, Brussels, Rome). He has visited the United States three times, teaches at Ohio State University and a mural at the East-West Center in Hawaii. He has shown also in São Paulo Biennale and traveling through Asia, and is planning to travel around the world, to do a series of paintings for an art collector in Japan.
As a famous artist, Affandi participated in various exhibitions abroad. In addition to India, he also displayed his works in the biennale in Brazil (1952), Venice (1954), and won an award there), and São Paulo (1956). In 1957, he received a scholarship from the government of the United States to study art education. He was appointed as an Honorary Professor of the field of painting at Ohio State University in Columbus. In 1974, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Singapore, Peace Award from the foundation Dag Hammarskjoeld in 1977, and the title of Grand Maestro in Florence, Italy.
In 1950, Affandi began to make paintings expressionist. At the time of his first grandson was born (1953) began a new style of painting with a direct hit from the paint tube of her. He came across this technique by accident, when he intends to draw the line. When he lost his temper when he was looking for a lost pencil, he applied paint directly from the tube of her. The resulting effect, because he knows, is that the painted objects look more vivid. He also felt more freedom to express his feelings when he used his own hands, instead of a paint brush. In particular, he has felt same to Vincent van Gogh.
Like most contemporary of Indonesia, Affandi grew up disconnected from the mainstream of modern art. Not until the late 1930s that the first exhibition of major Western artists - from Gauguin to Kandinsky and Picasso - was held in Batavia (now Jakarta). Affandi particularly fascinated by Javanese wayang, he toured with his family to Bandung and then to Batavia, honing skills of drawing and then painting with oil paints. By the time he began painting seriously in 1940, sometimes a painter, guard cinema tickets, collectors, and painted billboards. He will keep the remaining paint on the poster and other work and paint landscapes. Soon he began to pick with the consent of his wife, he decided to devote the first ten days of each month for the trade and the remaining twenty days to paint.
One day he saw a magazine art from London. He was impressed with the Impressionist, by Goya and Edvard Munch, and the previous master, Breughel, Hieronymus Bosch and Botticelli. Their influence is starting to show in his paintings. But the grim reality unpleasant experiences about Affandi imprint on his heart, in the town of Yogjakarta one day, after the Pacific War, Affandi sitting paint market atmosphere in which the people who are disappointed and hard in a state of starvation and half-naked. Angry at his indifference seemed Affandi, angry youths were throwing dust in the artist and the canvas and shouted: "This guy is crazy! .. We were naked and starving, he painted us on canvas and create a painting that bad that we can not understand"
The year's most creative natural Affandi in India, where he traveled and painted from 1949 to 1951. From there he went to Europe, showing his paintings in major cities (Paris, London, Brussels, Rome). He has visited the United States three times, teaches at Ohio State University and a mural at the East-West Center in Hawaii. He has shown also in São Paulo Biennale and traveling through Asia, and is planning to travel around the world, to do a series of paintings for an art collector in Japan.
As a famous artist, Affandi participated in various exhibitions abroad. In addition to India, he also displayed his works in the biennale in Brazil (1952), Venice (1954), and won an award there), and São Paulo (1956). In 1957, he received a scholarship from the government of the United States to study art education. He was appointed as an Honorary Professor of the field of painting at Ohio State University in Columbus. In 1974, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Singapore, Peace Award from the foundation Dag Hammarskjoeld in 1977, and the title of Grand Maestro in Florence, Italy.
