Collection Number | 101 |
Title | Lia dan O’ong/Lia and O’ong |
Time | 1998 |
Time Acquisition | 1999 |
Place | Painter’s home: Jl. Pemuda 19, Muntilan, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia |
Place of Acquisition | Studio Mendut, Central Java, Indonesia |
Name Painter (Place and Year of Birth-Death) |
Maryono (Muntilan 1938-2012) |
Size | 61cm x 42cm |
Category (Sub-Category) |
Personal |
Current Location | Bangkok, Thailand (Home) |
Description | This glass painting was a present by artist and friend Butet Kartarejasa. He conceptualized the painting and asked the painter to produce it. The painting portrays the late O’ong Maryono, who was a famous pencak silat master, practicing pencak silat and his wife Lia Sciortino holding a text with ‘jurus’ indications on the movements to follow like in the old times.
It is common for people to commission glass paintings with specific images as presents or decorations The painter Maryono (NO relations to O’ong Maryono) is the younger brother of Sastrogambar –another well-known painter of glass paintings. |