What is Art and What is It for?
By Kuss Indarto AS many artists in many parts of the world , artists from Indonesia base their works on socio-political matter in the community. They are also inspired by it as the ideology of their works. Many studies even indicate that the development of art works in line with the socio-political history of Indonesian society. In other words, Indonesian art history is the miniature of Indonesia’s social and politic history of society. The Indonesianists from the West, who study a lot of Indonesian’s beats of art in Indonesia, from Claire Holt, Helena Spanjaard, Werner Krauss, Brita L. Miklou-Mkalai, to Heidi Arbucle, and other names, base a lot of understanding that ideology problem in Indonesian artworks is a socio-political society problem that develop around it. History proved it, for example, during the years of Indonesian movement in seizing independence in 1940s, the artists did not only go into battle as patriots who used weapons physically, but they also made...