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Sunday, January 20, 2008
Affandi
Sometimes, when Affandi had sold his painting, he would look at the blank wall occasionally where the painting had been hung, and feel the desire to draw the same subject matter again to fill the empty space. He observed everything around him, and for once he spotted a dying bamboo which was bare and no longer green. He felt empathetic about it and painted "The Suffering Bamboo". Perhaps, it is all because of his passion to paint and the overwhelming emotions that he had that made himself one of the well known artist of the world for his expressionic paintings.
I find Affandi's artworks very bold and expressive, especially his oil paintings. The smearing of paints with his fingers, palms, wrists and back of his hands is indeed a very unique technique that brings his artworks alive. He also used bold, contrasting colours in his painting, for example, in Tiga Expresi Affandi,1979 and his Self-Portrait, 1975. The other similarity of these two paintings besides the contrasting colours he used is the irregular lines and expressive strokes that contribute to the abstract aspect of these two paintings.
Dead, 1987
One of my favorite paintings by Affandi is "Dead", 1987. I find the colour of this painting very different from the other Affandi's artworks as the colour in this painting is not as bright, vibrant and contrasting. Only a single brown, earthy tone is used and the atmosphere created makes the paintings seem dripping, dropping and moving downwards. The gloomy feeling is created by the ghost like apparition of Affandi's face and the dead chicken hanging upside down. By putting himself beside the dead chicken, Affandi might be telling us that all living things would have their lives ended-that's written in our destiny, and that also includes himself.
Affandi died in 1990 and that is just 3 years after he had painted this. This fact may tell us that he was not afraid of talking on the topic of "death" in his 80's, which is likely to be a sensitive topic to him.
I find Affandi's artworks very bold and expressive, especially his oil paintings. The smearing of paints with his fingers, palms, wrists and back of his hands is indeed a very unique technique that brings his artworks alive. He also used bold, contrasting colours in his painting, for example, in Tiga Expresi Affandi,1979 and his Self-Portrait, 1975. The other similarity of these two paintings besides the contrasting colours he used is the irregular lines and expressive strokes that contribute to the abstract aspect of these two paintings.
Dead, 1987
One of my favorite paintings by Affandi is "Dead", 1987. I find the colour of this painting very different from the other Affandi's artworks as the colour in this painting is not as bright, vibrant and contrasting. Only a single brown, earthy tone is used and the atmosphere created makes the paintings seem dripping, dropping and moving downwards. The gloomy feeling is created by the ghost like apparition of Affandi's face and the dead chicken hanging upside down. By putting himself beside the dead chicken, Affandi might be telling us that all living things would have their lives ended-that's written in our destiny, and that also includes himself.
Affandi died in 1990 and that is just 3 years after he had painted this. This fact may tell us that he was not afraid of talking on the topic of "death" in his 80's, which is likely to be a sensitive topic to him.