Abstract painting still looking for by foreign artists

Abstract painting still looking for by foreign artists, though the triumph of the work of these canvases in the development of modern art has been passed.

"Reality shows wing of contemporary artists to create works that quite amazing, still exist across the changing times," said analysts Good art Arif Prasetyo, in Denpasar, on Sunday (4/1/2009).

Commenting on the four artists from several regions in Indonesia, which each have a different cultural background and artists exhibiting in the township Ubud, Bali, he says, contemporary art in the history of modern art have experienced the heyday.

The flow of art since the 1910's sticking through the glory after World War II or the 1940s. City of Paris became the first development center of abstract painting. It was thanks to hard work and sincerity Dutch immigrant artist, Russia and Germany that produces quality work. They were finally able to conquer Europe and throughout the western world, including North America.

Prasetyo Arif who often acted as a curator in the implementation of various painting exhibitions of national and international level that rate, the flow of contemporary art and later became a storehouse of abstract painting a new, fresh and critical.

It is also capable of enriching the spectrum of contemporary art a more widely, so as to become a medium of modernization of the most excellent and fit the spiritual quest and self-expression, Arif Prasetyo said.

Four contemporary artists each Utoyo Hadi (derived from Central Java), Muhammad Faisal alias Iconk (Papua), Ikay Khairudin (Jakarta) and Nyoman Kardana (Bali) which are both patterned abstract paintings wrestle, held an exhibition at the artist village Ubud, Bali at the turn of the year 2008 to 2009.

The exhibition displays dozens of works of art theme is "4AS (FOR U.S.)" lasted until January 11, 2009. These four different artists' cultural backgrounds will still pursue the path of abstract painting in the middle of contemporary art trends in Indonesia, said Arif Prasetyo, also curator of the exhibition.

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