ISLLAC : Journal of Intensive Studies on Language, Literature, Art, and Culture
Vol 4, No 2 (2020)

Mooi Indie Paintings: The Antagonism and Its Politicality

Harfiyah Widiawati (Pusat Kajian Daerah dan Anggaran, Sekjen DPD RI, Jakarta)
Aris Masruri Harahap (President University)
Lambok Hermanto Sihombing (President University)



Article Info

Publish Date
17 Dec 2020

Abstract

For some people, Indonesia during colonial period is often imagined as a beautiful, quiet, peaceful, and harmonious country. Such imagination, for example, resides in the concept of Mooi Indie paintings which emerged out of Indonesian history during the Dutch colonial period. However, for other people, such representations were opposed because they were merely romanticized representation by painters patronized by the Dutch colonials who wanted to romanticize the memory of their past in East Indies.  In this article, we discussed how the concept of Mooi Indie appears in certain Indonesian landscape paintings, how the antagonism comes into sight, and how its politicality works.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jisllac

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities

Description

ISLLAC Journal is an international journal that publishes the best works of intensive research and conceptual studies on language, literature, art, and culture. The first publication of the journal in 2017, in conjunction with international seminars of language, literature, art, and culture. The ...