Karel Steenbrink over at Relindonesia posted a
story about a farewell lecture by Professor
Volker Küster of The Theological College of Kampen in Denmark. The
lecture (and accompanying booklet),
The Christian Art Scene in Yogyakarta, focuses on five Javanese Christian artists:
Bagong Kussudiardjo, Hendarto,
Hari Santosa, Dopo Yeihan and
Wisnu Sasongko. I hadn't heard of all of them, though I'd seen examples of some their work.
One whose work I'd never seen was Hendarto, and the examples that I've found so far, I really like. He was born in 1951 and was a Muslim convert to Catholicism. I really like his expressive lines and colors. His work reminds me of a combination of
Nyoman Darsane and
Sawai Chinnawong.
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