 Affandi is primarily known as Kusama Affandi
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Styles: Expressionism
Subjects: Figures, Animals, Self-Portraits, Indonesian Genre
The painter Affandi has been called a “towering figure in the history of Indonesian modern art.” Affandi’s paintings often display his emotional responses to the lives of a people struggling to move out of poverty towards dignity. His style is expressionism, and his subjects include figures, animals, self portraits and Indonesian Genre.
Affandi was born in Cierbon, West Java in 1907, the son of a (showing 500 of 5576 characters). |
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