Introducing Local Culture Through Art
Nia Gautama
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Abstract
Artworks created by artists or industrial products created by designers, ideally showed the creators’ character. An artist will produced an artwork and a designer will produced a designed to be executed into functional products. A qualified artist or designer will have the ability to create artworks with strong identity and original. Indonesia is called as Nusantara, because Indonesia is an archipelago country, that spread from Sumatera to Papua. Nusantara which is rich in its tradition and culture, has inspired many artists and designers to create artwork based on the tradition. Some artists treated tradition as a valuable art, not something ancient or out-of-date. They executed their contemporary artwork based on tradition. This paper, will share the strong capability of tradition in supporting the contemporary art and its ability to introduce a nation and a county’s identity to global world. Two artists were selected as references, they are the late Hendrawan Ryanto (1959 – 2004) and F.Widayanto (1953). The reason to choose both artists, because they were graduated from the same university and same faculty, and their artworks were tradition based, but very different in execution. Keywords : tradition, contemporary, culture, ritual, nation identity.
Key takeaways
- They might be artists or a designers who produce artworks that showing their identity.
- The use of konde in his work is based on his search to the Javanese roots.
- Their artworks mostly inspired by Javanese culture using clay as the medium, and there are another medium applied to support their artwork property.
- Since 1987 he did regular solo ceramic art exhibition, with specific theme in each exhibition such as Javanese culture, classic puppet, Deities, and many more.
- These artists treated tradition as their reference in creation process.
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