Resistance Painting over Yonder
Tuesday, January 16, 2001
The frenzied zeal for modern art hasn’t done away with naturalism. An experienced painter demonstrates his resistance to the temptation of esthetic illusions.
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Klaten in Central Java is but a small regency town. Never has it risen to fame on the fine arts scene in Indonesia. It has been reduced to a mere junction, where traffic streams from Yogyakarta to Solo and vice versa. Nonetheless, it’s where a seasoned painter has settled and survived with his naturalist style, seen by many as an unprofitable specialty.
He is known as Rustamadji, and Rus or Rustam among his friends. First president Sukarn
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