Abas Alibasyah Painting with "garuda"has Made Renewal by Doing Abstractions at The Paintings.

Abas Alibasyah Painting with "garuda"has Made Renewal by Doing Abstractions at The Paintings.

Abas Alibasyah to know the 1960s including the painter who has made renewal by doing abstractions at the paintings. Perspective on the object so motivated by sociocultural changes that became a common in Indonesia. Moderinasasi is the soul of times that a new myth in late 1960 to early 1970, is no exception in habitat Yogyakarta art at that time still very dominant with various forms of populist aesthetic paradigm. Response to modernization in the arts, in addition to encouraging change in shape toward peringkasan, conceptualization, and abstractions, also shows the struggle to defend the values of the various Indonesian penetration of Western culture. Abas do those two things, Abas absorb the spirit of modernization that by applying the basic patterns in the abstract geometric objects. In addition, he kept trying to dig the visual vocabulary of the tradition in the objects of his paintings.

In a painting titled "Garuda" in 1969, the implementation of the basic patterns to abstract geometric shapes eagle is very dominant. Be unique because the deformation has been so far and eagle forms, so that's more important is the expression of the visual elements of the existing share. Red color with gradations of violet and orange-red Kea give strength as an expressive background. Form of the bird emerges through the construction debris field with yellow and green, tied with a coarse texture and scratches imaged primitive breath. This painting is also like the works of Abas in that period, influenced by the visual sources of various ethnic Statue Archipelago. Abas is the aesthetic attitude, is a concrete embodiment in the process of struggle to defend the values of wave exposure indegeneous in Western culture, wrapped in the euphoria that time modernism.