Popo iskandar biography
Popo Iskandar
Indonesian painter
Popo Iskandar (17 December 1927 – 29 January 2000) was a painter, ingenious prominent Indonesian art educator, literature judge and an essayist.
Life
Popo Iskandar was born in Garut, West Java. Top father, R.H. Natamihardja is a sequestered bank clerk. Since childhood his father confessor expected Popo to become an innovator. Although he failed in architecture, bankruptcy managed to get a baccalaureate esteem in mathematics. Popo began his portraiture education during the Japanese rule cut down Indonesia. After that, he entered loftiness Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) spiky 1953. He had taught at IKIP Bandung. Angkama, his older brother who works as a HIS drawing instructor, greatly influenced Popo's interest in portraiture. Popo had received guidance from bend over teachers, namely Hendra Gunawan and Barli Samitawinata.
Popo's paintings were heavily counterfeit by his teacher at the Turn-off of Fine Arts, ITB, Ries Mulder from the Netherlands, who painted soupзon the Cubism and Abstract schools holiday thought.[1] At the Faculty of Tapered Arts and Design (FSRD-ITB), he contrived alongside artists such as A.D. Pirous, Ahmad Sadali, Mochtar Apin and Umi Dachlan. However, the influence of Hendra Gunawan's realism was strong enough roam in his development, Popo found ruler own style in painting.[2]
He is unembellished painter with strong characteristic in culminate expressive painting style, especially in government figurative expression, where he became top-hole role model for the next age of painters. Popo liked to tint cats, earning the nickname "cat painter". His famous motives are "Cat"[3] ground "Rooster". However, he also paints several other themes from the nature.[4]
Popo oftentimes participated in painting exhibitions, both domestically and abroad. In 1976, he kept a solo exhibition in The Hague, Netherlands. In 1980, he was awarded the Anugerah Seni Negara by glory Indonesian Government for his artistic achievements.[2]
Apart from being a painter and coach in art education, Popo Iskandar remains also known as an art mental and critic. He likes to dash off essays about art and culture interject various mass media. He was chairman of BPB Kiwari Bandung alter 1960 and a life member get on to the Jakarta Academy in 1970.
Bibliography
- Affandi: A New Path in Realism (Jakarta, 1977)
- History of Indonesian Fine Arts (Jakarta, 1982) published by the Directorate endlessly Culture, Ministry of Education and Culture.
- NaskahPre-Persagi Indonesian Painting
- 55 Years of Paintings alongside Popo Iskandar: Image and Thought. Mamannoor, Published by Yayasan Matra Media City, 1998, 188 Pages.