Artist: Deni Je
Title: “The Painting Lecture”
Year: 2022
Size: 200 cm x 260 cm (78.7 in x 102.3 in)
Materials: Acrylic and oil on canvas
Price: US$ 11500
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Indonesian modern painting education follows Western painting.
This is like science and technology in Muslim countries being considered to come from the West. In fact, as recorded in history, science and technology in the West is a development of what was developed during the Abbasid Islamic Caliphate.
In this painting, instead of Indonesian artists learning from the Western curriculum, I, who is Muslim and born in the East, taught Western painters.
This painting is an art appropriation of Jean Frédéric Bazille’s “The Artist’s Studio”, Johannes Vermeer’s “The Art of Painting”, Norman Rockwell’s “Dead Line”, and Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”.
Ambiguous orange figures depict the illusion of the world.