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An article from The Jakarta post, Indonesia's English-language newspaper, in which respected journalist and author Julia Suryakusuma argues that Indonesia's Women's Day should be renamed to honour Ibu Kartika!
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I am constantly amazed by Kartika's seemingly limitless energy. In fact, I sometimes find it challenging just keeping up with this Great-Grandmother who is a quarter-century my senior. I get the impression she can do just about anything she sets her mind to.
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I would like to share some pioneering writing about Kartika by Astri Wright, which was first published in 1999.
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Today I thought about posting a blog entry about the day I went with Kartika while she sketched and painted goats, or perhaps about the day we went to the school for the deaf in Yogya which she supports...
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As the editing for the "Kartika" documentary continues, I thought I would share some stills of Ibu Kartika from the 30 August 2015 interview footage that I am working on this week.
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Kartika has represented herself in striking painted and sculpted self-portraits as merged with her father Affandi on her right, and her mother Maryati on her left, which she says is her way of expressing how indebted she feels to her parents, and how much her identity and her path in life, as an
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In 1978 I read a collection of art historian Kenneth Clarke’s 1950s lectures, and the one on “The Naked and the Nude” left a lasting impression on me.
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Here are a couple of quick self-portrait sketches Kartika made, one with glasses on and one without. I believe that one of these sketches will be used as a cover or frontispiece for a Kartika biography that is planned for publication sometime in Holland (the author did the interviews with K
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Sorting through images from the past 4 weeks in Central Java and I thought I might share a few here...
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As a result of our 6-day visit to Borobudur Kartika completed 3 paintings, all portraying the 9th c Buddhist monument among lotus flowers, which is how she imagines it.