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Siti Adiyati
Siti Adiyati Subangun (born 2 October 1951), better known as Siti Adiyati, is an Indonesian contemporary artist, educator, writer, and activist. Her work explores issues of social inequality, environmental degradation, and bureaucratic corruption. She is known as one of the founding members of the Indonesian New Art Movement (Indonesian language, Indonesian: ''Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru'') from 1975 to 1979. With Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru (GSRB), Siti Adiyati was part of an "academic rebellion" that pushed for the separation of Indonesian art from institutional bureaucracy. Along with Nanik Mirna, Siti Adiyati was one of the few women artists involved with the GSRB, which mostly included young male artists from Bandung, Jakarta, and Yogyakarta. Education and personal life Siti Adiyati was a student of the Akademi Seni Rupa Indonesia (ASRI) in Yogyakarta. Siti Adiyati was part of a growing opposition on campus that was against the curriculum's limited conceptions of fine art. Then, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta (; jv, ꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠ ; pey, Jogjakarta) is the capital city of Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by a monarchy, Yogyakarta is regarded as an important centre for classical Javanese fine arts and culture such as ballet, ''batik'' textiles, drama, literature, music, poetry, silversmithing, visual arts, and '' wayang'' puppetry. Renowned as a centre of Indonesian education, Yogyakarta is home to a large student population and dozens of schools and universities, including Gadjah Mada University, the country's largest institute of higher education and one of its most prestigious. Yogyakarta is the capital of the Yogyakarta Sultanate and served as the Indonesian capital from 1946 to 1948 during the Indonesian National Revolution, with Gedung Agung as the president's office. One of the districts in southeastern Yogyakarta, Kotagede, was the capital of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
