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Old Paintings of Japanese Life (part 7)

June 25, 2011

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Affandi, The Legend of Indonesian Expresionist Painter

Affandi Koesoema (Cirebon, West Java, 1907 - May 23 1990) was a painter known as Maestro Painting Indonesia, probably Indonesia's most famous painters in the international world, thanks to a distinctive him style. In the 1950s he held many solo exhibitions in India, UK, Europe and the United States. A prolific painter, Affandi had painted more than two thousand artwork. Biography Affandi was born in Cirebon in 1907, the son of R. Koesoema, an orderly measuring the sugar factory in Tangerang, Cirebon. In terms of education, it includes a formal education is quite high. For people his generation, his education, MULO, and subsequently graduated from the AMS, including the education obtained only by a handful of country boy. However, his art talent is very strong beat other disciplines in life, and indeed has made his name famous the same as the figures or leaders of other fields. At the age of 26 years, in 1933, Affandi was married to Maryati, a girl born in Bogor. Affandi and M

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Old Paintings of Japanese Life (part 7)

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