Eight Decades of A.D. Pirous:
Inspired by Aceh Headstones
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
A special event was recently held at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) to commemorate the 80th birthday of calligraphy painter, A.D. Pirous. The weathered Arabic writings found on old graves in Aceh continue to be his source of inspiration.
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A vertical red glow runs upward alongside a pair of wavy outer lines. It is shaped like a curved blade, a combination between a knife and a keris dagger. They cut across the yellow, red and brown background. This collision of colors makes the tip of the line like an arrow's tip, bringing out the black and the dark around it. The painting Alif Menuju Langit (Skywards A) gives the impression of a mighty beam of light.
Alif is the first letter of t
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