The Film

Kartika: 9 Ways of Seeing

A documentary film by Christopher Basile
A portrait of the charismatic and outspoken Javanese modern artist Kartika Affandi, her remarkable life, and her powerful paintings and sculpture.

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The story of Kartika Affandi is the story of a woman determined to express herself on her own terms, and to make a career as a modern artist, although she was born into a society and a time in which this was unprecedented and considered an impossible goal for a female.

Kartika was taught to paint by her father, the legendary Affandi, the nation's most celebrated and renowned artist. But she was warned that despite her prodigious talent and determination she would be fated to live in his artistic shadow.

Still actively painting, sculpting and exhibiting at the age of 83, the story of Kartika Affandi is a story of triumph. It is the story of how one woman succeeded in bringing her uniquely beautiful, complex, deeply personal, and sometimes shocking artistic vision to life.

 
Kartika at Merapi

Kartika - Painting of Merapi

"...Kartika Affandi is the leading radical figure of the first generation of modern women artists in Indonesia… Kartika experienced the social cost exacted of women who chose to challenge the normative roles of wife and mother. She paid, with social ostracization and sexist reviews, for presuming to become a modern artist… Kartika provides the world with her own, particularized artistic challenge to the notion of what women are and what women artists should create. She shows us how one woman in Java claimed her freedom to define for herself a place, a style, and a voice of her own… "  - Dr. Astri Wright, Professor of South & Southeast Asian Art, University of Victoria, Canada
To read the full article by Prof Wright  http://havrillay.com/kartika/node/3

To read a biographical sketch of Kartika Affandi  http://havrillay.com/kartika/

To see a slideshow of images of Kartika Affandi's paintings and sculpture http://havrillay.com/kartika/slideshow

To read the Director's blog  http://havrillay.com/kartika/blog/chris

Kartika - Painting of Maryati, the monkey and three faces of Papi

KARTIKA: 9 WAYS OF SEEING
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Garry Havrillay, Michael Connor, Heather Curnow, Kelli Berezin, Garrett and Bron Solyom, Jan Grønbech, David Mitchell, Sue Froehlich, Trevor Harrison, Rebecca Meade, Clifford B Spencer, Erin McMahon, Gana Stegmann, Lea Jelinek, Bill Shewbridge, Jason Koontz, Faridah McMahon, Kavisha Mazzella, Martin Pullan, Astri Wright, Barbara Hatley, Drew Thompson, Vesna Vuynovich Kovach, Gregory Kulacki, McKaila Ferguson, Paul Holleman, Peter Vadiveloo, Dale Gorfinkel, Sue Piper, Nadia Astari, Gary Leventhal, Timothy Prendergast, Christopher Quirk, Matthew Davies, Pati Tozer, Barbara Miller, Meg Jenkins, Dereen Piscium, Pin Rada

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