Sriyanto -- Painting, Drawings and Sketches
Sriyanto -- Painting, Drawings and Sketches
Jayakarta Agung Offset, 2000
234 pp
Rp 300,000 (soft cover), Rp 400,000 (hardback)
JAKARTA (JP): It is normally difficult to see your favorite
artist's whole range of works in one place, unless you have the
luxury of going to the artist's museum or gallery.
Bambang Sriyanto Salamoen, a painter and banker, has found a
commendable solution to the problem. He is trying to make his
works known to a wider audience by publishing a book.
The catalog-style book he launched on Thursday at his gallery
in the upmarket Pondok Indah area of the capital carries a
selection of 217 of his paintings, drawings and sketches.
Better known as an impressionist, Sriyanto includes works from
the last five years which have contemporary abstract nuances made
with oil, watercolor, pastel and acrylic.
"In fact Sriyanto is a landscape painter in the true sense,"
Barli Sasmitawinata, chairman of the Indonesian Watercolor
Society, wrote in the book's foreword.
Born in the small Central Java town of Cepu in 1937, Sriyanto
is a self-taught artist, making friends with artists as a youth
in Surabaya where he studied law at Airlangga University.
He has traveled around the world to visit galleries housing
works of world-renowned artists such as Leonardo da Vinci,
Rembrandt, van Gogh and more contemporary artists like Willem de
Kooning, Philip Gustron and Mark Rothko.
Sriyanto is fascinated by the Chinese painting style and
philosophy that he learned in Singapore for six years, practicing
the black-and white Chinese brush painting technique on rice
paper.
The book, presenting Sriyanto's works on various paper types
using pastel, pencil, charcoal and ink is organized in six major
categories: landscape, floral still life, portraits of women,
Chinese ink on rice paper, abstract and "other works".
The book provides a complete overview of Sriyanto's artistic
journey, akin to a visit to his gallery for a first-hand look. It
is available in a limited print edition of 1,000 copies. (pan)