I always fall in love with Impressionism
paintings. Therefore, it became very logical if my early painting style had the
character of impressionism. But as time went by, I began to feel dissatisfied
with the style. The dim pastel colors of the grim light playing, leaving the
impression of less spirit, as well as the absence of passion that came from my
works. While in the personal appreciation of life which was very existential,
arising the tremendous upheavals and fiery passions which required something to
be expressed.
The dissatisfaction had implications for the
onset of styles and patterns which I am currently undergoing at this time. Of
course in a fresher new atmosphere, with the freedom of expression which is
more freely, resulting the freer brush strokes and richer color spectrum.
As a process in making the work, initially I felt
inspired by Plato's idealism in perceive reality. Whereas the visible world is
merely an overview of the original, in which the knowledge gained from the
visual and sensory sight is the shadow of knowledge, only the picture of the
actual knowledge. While actual knowledge is not reached by humans.
Reality is merely the idea projections. An even
more extreme was George Berkeley's opinion: esse est percipi, exist is
perceived to be!
For him the real object that we perceive around
us was simply the product of our perception only. And of course the perception
is something very subjective.
The views provide great stimulus through my mind.
Behold, I have my own subjective perceptions towards the real object that I
have seen, because the real objects are captured by the senses somehow become
unreal, or more subtle is not the original.
From that standpoint, amazingly in making the
work, I precisely was getting more freedom to express the imagination into a
perception that has been built based on my observations of the real object.
Natural colors become no more important, While I looked at the blue sky as
brown, green, yellow, red or even purple.
The perception I had let become biased in looking
at the real objects, then I translated into canvas. So when I painted certain
object, such as the atmosphere in one place at one moment on the banks of Kali
Code (Code River). It would create a fine art painting which entirely
unconventional associated with the real object. Because I would deliberately
make it more colorful and certainly more imaginative. In other words, it's sort
of a mix among reality, imagination, fantasy, free minds and free will at the
same time.
I need to emphasize here, that I am not a
follower of Plato or Berkeley in the true sense. However, if their thoughts
influence me in experimenting with my works is an inescapable fact. Yet more
than that, what really happens is: I actually was struggling with my philosophy
about the human appreciation of self-liberation. Liberation of self is the
authentic form of freedom, a freedom that uniquely human typical as a result of
the tension between the will of self-liberation confront the chained atmosphere
because of the shackles of his limitations as a real human being.
The latter is what gives more space for me to
express. It means that even though the real object is perceived by many as 'something',
but I painted in terms of my own freedom to create. I am about to say that
'something' in my work to be 'not that thing', because I made it to be 'like
this' ...
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| The process of transforming ideas into visual art from reality |
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| The real objects : The daytime atmosphere in one place at one moment on the Code River banks |
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The new look on my fine art painting have the strong distinctive brush strokes and more colorful
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