Multi Aesthetics in Modern Batik of Hardjonagoro Go Tik Swan

Abstract

Hardjonagoro Go Tik Swan was a Javanese of Tionghoa ( Chinese descendent in Indonesia) who was curious about ancient manuscripts, statues, dances, puppets, batik, and art in general. He became a prominent Javanese culture scholar acknowledged by peers in his era. His breakthrough in re-inventing batik while maintaining its classical values has established his creation to be known as modern batik. As a batik artist, Hardjonagoro Go Tik Swan  showed a phenomenon where batik dissolves into discourse of life where it integrates and  simultaneously follows the development of modern art. This study aims at the analysis of Hardjonagoro Go Tik Swan’s batik in the perspective of modern art discourse, focusing the discussion through the aesthetic theory of Feldman (1967) which defines aesthetic value as the ability of an object to experience beauty, and also AM Djelantik’s theory (1999) regarding aesthetic elements, which describe that every art object or event contains  three basic aspects, namely appearance, content, substance and presentation. This research is expected to reveal the novelty of Hardjonagoro Go Tik Swan’s practice of making batik through the discourse of modern art.

Keywords: Modern Batik, Aesthetics, Hardjonagoro Go Tik Swan

DOI: 10.7176/ADS/86-03

Publication date:October 31^st 2020