Raden Saleh; Child Netherlands, Mooi Indie and Nationalism
19th Century is a gate opening of the indigenous population education course, to study in Europe. With all the intellectual and artistic talent, Raden Saleh received scholarships breathing education in Europe. Beginning of the spread of the idea of independence and opposing colonialism with dodgy business.
Raden Saleh, as one of the great painters who held this nation, born to make history. As the son of one of his employees and translators for Dutch, Raden Saleh started his journey twists and turns as a painter with shades of tragedy and irony.
The book “Raden Saleh; Child Netherlands, Mooi Indie and Nationalism” written jointly by Harsja W. Bachtiar, Peter B.R. Carey and Onghokham Raden Saleh tried to explain the position in space in a clear intellect and artistry. This book is seeking a review of the hard work, irony, tragedy and expectations that surround the life of great painters of this country. Raden Saleh step milestone not only famous painter, but seek the spread of ideas, and pro-independence campaign folk art with a beautiful plot strategy.
Raden Saleh’s living room is full of ethical politics of colonialism. Admittedly, Raden Saleh is one of the native sons the opportunity of a modern education in Europe. Raden Saleh foot to breathe air europe education in 1829, before Sosrokartono (1896) and Abdul Rivai (1899) did the same trip.
Prodigious talent Raden Saleh invited the sympathy of many princes and nobles that time. Political art of diplomacy and strategy that made Raden Saleh managed to deliver him to surf to enjoy and learn the development of painting in mainland Europe.
Chronology History
Raden Saleh life span sejarang a tangled yarn. Harsja W. Bachtiar write with clarity, the history of life and mental development of Raden Saleh. The history of the birth of Raden Saleh, is still open to debate. Because the year 1814, as titi prey birth, moot many historians. Raden devout born in Terboyo, Semarang, Central Java, in 1814, this date Raden Saleh’s own property. His father was Sayyid Hussein bin Alwi bin Initial and his mother was mas Ajeng Zarip Husen. Both are grandchildren of Kyai Ngabehi Ketosobo Bustam (1681-1759), a resident assistant Terboyo.
Raden Saleh spent his childhood at the residence of the Duke Kyai Soero Menggolo, Regent of Semarang, until the year 1822. The regent was his own uncle, because Suro was the seventh son of Raden Saleh’s my great-grandfather, Kyai Ngabehi Kertosobo Bustam.
Raden Saleh’s natural talent wafted by Joseph Paijen Antonie Auguste (1792-1853), while living in Bogor. Paijen Belgian nationals, who worked as a painter of art for Professor CGC Reinwardt government who served as the Director of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences. Reindwardt famous as the founder of the botanical gardens of Bogor.
Paijen After returning to Europe in early 1825, Raden Saleh turned into the family of Belgium, Jean Baptiste de Linge and his wife. In 1829, de Linge was ordered by the Commissioner-General du Bus de Gesignies to travel to the Netherlands. De Linge was assigned to report the financial condition of the colony to the king. This is the beginning of Raden Saleh’s odyssey to learn and hone his artistic instincts in Europe.
In Europe, Raden Saleh had the opportunity to meet painters and artists who occupy top positions in the circle of European empires. Raden Saleh also maintains close relationships with some of Europe’s royal rulers, including King Friedrich August II of Saxony. Painters are also settled in Coburg, Gotha and Paris.
After exploring Europe, in 1851, Raden return to their homeland, after a long trip to europe. Before returning to Java, Raden Saleh was married to Ms. Winkelman, who became his first wife.
Impressions Nationalism
Raden Saleh’s life story is framed by the mind orientalism, colonialism tension, and mental burden that plagued inlander the colonized indigenous people. However, Raden Saleh to surpass the mental prison that rein in life. He succeeded in riveting high-ranking European nobleman with paintings, artistic and touching. Cosmopolitan attitude practiced Raden Saleh, perpetuate his name as a famous painter who won seats in the European art conversation.
Artistic value, the pattern of nobility and diplomacy agenda by Raden Saleh’s art does not necessarily make it forget the cries of the indigenous people of his day. Raden Saleh made a large contribution in forming the image, the sign and explain fragment conclude the struggle of indigenous people in paintings aesthetic value.
Concerns on the fate of the natives, discover the top when it felt the bitterness of struggle Prince Dipanegara in Java. After he fought in 1925-1930, Prince Diponegoro was arrested and exiled by the Dutch. On February 8, 1885, Prince Dipanegara died during exile in Makassar, South Sulawesi. Raden Saleh exploit this momentum to inspire the birth of the work, which he called “a Historisches Tableau, die des Javanischen Gefangennahmen Hauptling Diepo Negoro.” This work is the work and commitment of nationality which blend with the breath of life Raden Saleh.
In the painting, Raden Saleh described the arrest of Prince Dipanegara tension process, which originated from guile General De Kock. Prince Dipanegara arrested in Magelang, after completing the ritual of fasting, in 1930. Impressions and emotional acuity depicted in this painting, Raden Saleh expressed sympathy for the struggle Dipanegara. Nationalism of Raden Saleh did not explode with movement of arms, a radical opposition, and war strategy. Raden Saleh wrestle with canon painting “mooi indie” is becoming a trend of painting the colonial period. Romantic nuances, fragments of natural beauty, and exoticism colony, became part moii indie genre painting, as an appreciation of the Dutch East Indies officials missed, when the country returned to Holland. However, Raden Saleh will not just scratch romanticism, taking sides on the story of the struggle of the natives put him in space respectable attitude. Although it has been passed on Friday, 23 April 1980, at 13.oo pm, in the town of Bogor (Buitenzorg), but the name Raden Saleh mengabadi until the present. The name of this great painter, immortalized in an oasis of culture in Semarang; Taman Budaya Raden Saleh (TBRS).
Raden Saleh’s version of nationalism is not the energy to prepare war and resistance against colonialism. Indeed, the choice to capture the moment in a struggle of the indigenous exotic paintings. This book, recording a figure of Raden Saleh and struggle with irony, tragedy and expectations.
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