Trubus Sudarsono's Women
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Nearly all of Trubus' paintings are of women.
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In the 1950s, then president Sukarno sent a courier to the house of Trubus Sudarsono in Pakem, Yogyakarta, bearing a statue of a nude woman less than 50 centimeters high. Sukarno wanted Trubus to sculpt a larger replica of the statue. Trubus duly reproduced the statue, one-and-a-half times bigger than the original. He called it Si Denok.
Si Denok, carved of volcanic stone from Mount Merapi, resides to this day on the grounds of the presidential
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