Basuki Abdullah 3533l

PROJECT

BASUKI ABDULLAH INDONESIAN PAINTER

DATE

26 NOV 2016

CREATED BY

NENDEN MARYANI

Biography Full Name: Basuki/Basoeki Abdullah

Birth Date: Surakarta, Central Java 25 January 1915

Death date: Jakarta, 5 November 1993 (78 years old)

Character: Realism and Naturalism

Education : - Hollandsch-Inlandsche School (HIS), Solo

- Academia Voor Beeldende Kunsten, Netherland and got Royal International of Art (RIA)

Realism and naturalism is a style of paintings are exactly based on literal thing with aspects of the real properties, without taking or adding anything.

LIFE His Father, Abdullah Soerjo Soebroto is also a painter, so painting have always been part of his childhood days as his father.

He started to paint at the age of 4, his early paintings are Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Jesus Christ, and Krishnamurdi.

During the Japanese occupation of Indonesia he was an art teacher.

1933 - He got scholarship to Den Haag, at the Academia Voor Beeldende Kunsten in the Netherland. 1936 - He got the Royal International of Art (IRA) certificate.

1948 - He beats 87 other painters from Europe in the Art Competition in Netherlands. After that, he become a self-potrait painter.

He traveled to many countries (mostly Europe) and cities after his graduation, but between 1962-1976 he lived in Thailand.

1963 he become palace painter (Royal Court Artist) in Thailand and received a gift Stars as Artists Poporo Palace.

He married with Thai girl, Nataya Nareerat. They have a daughter who is named Sidawaty Bharany.

1974 - He returned to Jakarta, and he brought his Thai wife. After that, He become painter Palace in Indonesia.

In 1993 He was murdered by a robber in his house.

WORK Basuki Abdullah has requested by many great people to paint their potrait, such as: 1st President of Indonesia (Soekarno); 2nd President of Indonesia (Soeharto); Sultan of Brunei Darussalam; Prince Philip of England; Prince Bernard of Netherlands Kingdom; Queen Juliana of Netherland Kingdom; King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his wife, Queen Sirikit of Muangthai Kingdom.

His works are displayed in:

- Bangkok, Thailand

- Malaysia

- Japan

- Netherlands

- United Kingdom

- Portugal

- Singapore [Sotheby]

- Indonesia's Palace & Indonesian National Gallery

"SOEKARNO" (1962) THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC INDONESIA

"SOEHARTO" (1968) THE SECOND PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC INDONESIA

"QUEEN JULIANA" (1948) QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS

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