Word: affandi
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...hardest things for a new artist to do these days is convince Europe's jaundiced critics that his style is 1) new, and 2) worth having. A modest 42-year-old Javanese painter named Affandi can qualify on both counts. He has never taken a formal art lesson in his life, but after his first big exhibit in London six months ago, the New Statesman's John Berger flatly called him "a painter of genius." Last week, at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts, the critics got another glimpse of Affandi and he still looked very good...
...exposition of ancient and modern Indonesian art, Affandi's 48 pictures are a curious combination of East and West. He paints anything that catches his eye-huge Western bridges, gritty red-light districts, stolid water buffaloes, dead chickens, his friends, his toilworn mother. And he paints them with obvious emotion: his lines are slapdash, his colors sometimes slop together in incoherence. But more often the result he gets is a soaring, faintly oriental fantasy...