Styles: Expressionism. Subjects: Figures, Animals, Self-Portraits, Indonesian Genre. The painter Affandi has been called a "towering figure in the history of Indonesian modern art." Affandi's... Read full biography
Styles: Expressionism. Subjects: Figures, Animals, Self-Portraits, Indonesian Genre. The painter Affandi has been called a "towering figure in the history of Indonesian modern art." Affandi's paintings often display his emotional responses to the lives of a people struggling to move out of poverty... Read full biography
Styles: Expressionism. Subjects: Figures, Animals, Self-Portraits, Indonesian Genre. The painter Affandi has been called a "towering figure in the history of Indonesian modern art." Affandi's paintings often display his emotional responses to the lives of a people struggling to move out of poverty towards dignity. His style is expressionism, and his subjects include figures, animals, self portraits and Indonesian Genre. Affandi was born in Cierbon, West Java in 1907, the son of a surveyor at a... Read full biography
Styles: Expressionism. Subjects: Figures, Animals, Self-Portraits, Indonesian Genre. The painter Affandi has been called a "towering figure in the history of Indonesian modern art." Affandi's paintings often display his emotional responses to the lives of a people struggling to move out of poverty towards dignity. His style is expressionism, and his subjects include figures, animals, self portraits and Indonesian Genre. Affandi was born in Cierbon, West Java in 1907, the son of a surveyor at a local sugar factory. After finishing his secondary education he found himself increasingly interested in painting, and in his mid-twenties he emerged as a self-taught artist. During his early years he taught school, collected tickets at a movie... Read full biography
Styles: Expressionism. Subjects: Figures, Animals, Self-Portraits, Indonesian Genre. The painter Affandi has been called a "towering figure in the history of Indonesian modern art." Affandi's paintings often display his emotional responses to the lives of a people struggling to move out of poverty towards dignity. His style is expressionism, and his subjects include figures, animals, self portraits and Indonesian Genre. Affandi was born in Cierbon, West Java in 1907, the son of a surveyor at a local sugar factory. After finishing his secondary education he found himself increasingly interested in painting, and in his mid-twenties he emerged as a self-taught artist. During his early years he taught school, collected tickets at a movie theater and worked as a house painter, saving leftover paint for his canvases. In 1933, at the age of 26, Affandi married Maryati, a g... Read full biography