Basuki Abdullah Painting with "Brother and Sister" Strength of Mastery of Realist TechniqueBasuki Abdullah's painting titled "Brother and Sister", 1978 This is one of his works that show the strength of mastery of realist techniques. With lighting from the side, figure and a younger sister who was pregnant in her arms rhythm of life drama. With a mastery of proportion and anatomy, this painter who describes their bodies in steady motion lonely journey. The atmosphere was, as they face the GCC clear but his eyes staring blankly. Moreover, their clothes are unpretentious and dark figure in a shroud sisters compassion. From these textual facts, Basuki Abdullah wanted to express empathy to compassion and humanity.
However, the spirit of human compassion in this painting remains in the frame romantisisme.Oleh therefore, more attendance figures sisters sebabagi world idealism intact or even sweet, rather than the sharpness of the painful reality of humanity. Thus the concept of aesthetic choices can be confirmed in all the works of others, Basuki Abdullah. Of the few mythological figures naked body, animal figures, portraits of famous people, or spread of scenery, although built with a dramatization, but all present as a beautiful ideal world full of color and light.
Associated with these aesthetic concepts, Basuki Abdullah, had sharp criticism from Sudjojono. Painting Basuki Abdullah said Mooi Indie filled with the spirit that only deal with beauty and beauty alone. Whereas in those days, the Indonesian nation is facing the occupation, thus living a very bitter reality. Both painters were actually does have a different aesthetic views, so that different ways of giving birth. In fact aesthetic Basuki Abdullah, who supported the ability of high academic techniques and equipment placed as a great painter. It proved a number of awards obtained, also the support from the grassroots to the elite in the palace, and also the survival of his works exist through various periods