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Affandi was born on 18 May, 1907 in Indonesia, is an Indonesian artist (1907–1990). Discover Affandi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Born 18 May 1907
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1907

Affandi (18 May 1907 – 23 May 1990) was an Indonesian artist.

Born in Cirebon, West Java, as the son of R. Koesoema, who was a surveyor at a local sugar factory, Affandi finished his upper secondary school in Jakarta.

He gave up his studies to pursue his desire to become an artist.

Affandi was born in 1907, in Cirebon.

His father was R. Koesoemah.

When he was a child, his father wanted him to be a doctor; however, Affandi was interested in drawing.

1930

It wasn't until the late 1930s that the first exhibitions of major Western artists – from Gauguin to Kandinsky and Picasso – were held in Batavia (today's Jakarta).

Affandi was particularly fascinated by the Javanese wayang, or shadow-play.

He followed his family to Bandung and then to Batavia, honing his skill at drawing and then at oil painting.

1934

Beginning in 1934, Affandi began teaching himself how to paint.

He married Maryati, a fellow artist.

One of his children, Kartika also became an artist.

1940

By the time he began painting seriously, in 1940, he had at various times been a housepainter, a cinema ticket-collector, and a billboard artist.

He would save paints left over from the posters and his other jobs and paint landscapes.

Soon he was exhibiting – and, as a surprise to himself – actually selling.

With his wife's consent, he decided to devote the first ten days of each month to his trade, and the remaining twenty to his art.

His only teachers were a few reproductions that he saw in copies of Studio, an art magazine from London.

He felt a kinship with the Impressionists, with Goya and with Edvard Munch, as well as the earlier masters, Breughel, Hieronymus Bosch and Botticelli.

Their influence began to show in his paintings.

But the grim realities around Affandi made an even greater mark on him.

In Yogjakarta one day, just after the Pacific War, Affandi sat painting a market place where folk were grubbing about, half-starved and half-naked.

Infuriated at his seeming unconcern, a youth threw dust at the artist and his canvas, shouting: "This man is mad! While our people are naked he paints them on canvas and makes a bad painting we cannot understand."

Affandi himself said: "One day an art collector looked in my studio and said he couldn't select any of my paintings because the paintings he saw hurt his feelings. He asked me why I didn't make paintings of beautiful objects: landscapes, girls, and so forth. I too like beautiful things, but they do not necessary provide inspiration for my work. My subjects are expressive rather than beautiful. I paint suffering – an old woman, a beggar, a black mountain ... My great wish is that people learn a little from my work. I do know the danger of doing paintings with this in mind. I have no intention of becoming a social propagandist, and I must be careful. One day, in India, visiting a village with my Daughter Kartika, I saw a dead body covered by a mattress. Kartika said, 'That's a good subject for you.' I felt very touched by what we had seen, but I told her I would not paint it. My next painting was of a flower, in reality very fresh, but which on my canvas lacked all life."

1949

Some of Affandi's most creative years were spent in India, where he travelled and painted from 1949 to 1951.

From there he went to Europe, showing his paintings at the major capitals (among them Paris, London, Brussels, Rome).

He has visited the United States thrice, teaching at Ohio State University and painting a mural at the East-West Center in Hawaii.

He has shown also at the São Paulo Biennale and travelled through Asia, and was planning for a trip around the world, to do a series of paintings for an art collector in Japan.

As a renowned artist, Affandi participated in various exhibitions abroad.

1950

In the 1950s, Affandi began to create expressionist paintings.

1952

Besides India, he also displayed his works in the biennale in Brazil (1952), Venice (1954), and won an award there, and São Paulo (1956).

1953

The piece Carrying the First Grandchild (1953) marked his newfound style known as "squeezing the tube".

Affandi painted by directly squeezing the paint out of its tube.

He came across this technique by accident, when he intended to draw a line one day.

As he lost his patience when he was looking for a missing pencil, he applied the paint directly from its tube.

The resulting effect, as he found out, was that the painted object appeared more alive.

He also felt more freedom to express his feelings when he used his own hands, instead of a paint brush.

In certain respects, he has acknowledged similarities with Vincent van Gogh.

Like most of his Indonesian contemporaries, Affandi grew up largely cut off from the mainstream of modern art.

1957

In 1957, he received a scholarship from the United States government to study arts education.

He was appointed as an Honorary Professor in Painting by Ohio State University in Columbus.