Monday, December 5, 2011

Affandi Family

[slideshow]Indonesia’s most famous artist, Affandi, was not alone in his world of
art. He is a grand patriarch of a family of artists. Affandi
encouraged his wife Maryati and daughter Kartika to paint, and other
family members have also become artists.

Having lived with Affandi for decades, painting seems to come
naturally for Maryati. During their stay in Europe in the 1970s,
Maryati accompanied Affandi going around to find interesting subjects
to paint. Sometimes, when she considered the subject that Affandi
painted was also of interest to her, she would paint it as well, in
her own unique naive style. While Affandi’s depiction of the Eiffel
Tower is well-known, Maryati’s lesser known version is actually no
less interesting.

Since she was a teenager, Kartika went along with her father, whenever
he allowed her to come along when he was going to paint. She quickly
absorbed her father’s technique, and adopted it as her own. Although
until this day, Kartika Affandi seeems to continue to be under the
shadow of her infamous father, she is actually a painter in her own
right. To Kartika, painting is part of her daily life, and to her,
there is not a day that goes by without painting.
Kartika’s first husband, Sapto Hoedoyo, was also an accomplished
painter who belonged to another prominent family of artists.


The following lots (# 026 to  047) include the works of Affandi,
Maryati Kartika, Kartika Affandi, and Sapto Hoedoyo.
A certificate from Affandi Art Gallery signed by Helfi Dirix,
grand-daughter of Affandi and Maryati, daughter of Kartika and Sapto
Hoedoyo, accompanies the artworks created by the Affandi family
members.

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