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| name : Arie
Smit |
| birthday
: Apr. 15st.
1916 |
| birth
place : Zaandam, Holland |
| awards
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Those who can imagine
things in reality and draw them accurately are illustrators.
Those who see the hidden forms and see the color as shapes are
painters. |
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exhibition data:
| 1954 |
June, his first solo exhibition, held at Panti Budaya, Bandung.
February, a solo exhibition at Kolff Building, Jakarta.
June, solo exhibition in Plaju, Palembang, sponsored by Bataafsche Petroleum
Maatschappij ( BPM ).
December, an exhibition of his 25 small watercolor paintings with the theme of
"The Development of Kebayoran", in his own house in Bandung. |
| 1955 |
June, a solo exhibition in Balikpapan, sponsored by BPM
July, left for Bali and settled down on the island. |
| 1962 |
February, a solo exhibition at the Italian Embassy, Jakarta. |
| 1963 |
May, a joint exhibition with Italian painter, Renato Christiano
May, a joint exhibition with the Young Artists, the group of painters he had
trained, at the Italian Embassy, Jakarta, sponsored by the Italian ambassador,
H. E. Baron Filippo Muzi Falconi.
August, a joint exhibition with Han Snel, a Dutch painter, in the Gallery Pik
Gan, Surabaya. |
| 1967 |
February, a joint exhibition with Han Snel in Banowati
Art Shop, Jalan Semarang, Jakarta. |
In subsequent years, Arie Smit spent
most of his time hiding in many corners of Bali. A few of his
works appeared in various joint exhibitions from time of time.
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| 1981 |
For one and a half months Arie trained Vietnamese, Cambodian
and Laotian refugees to paint in pulau Galang-requested by UNHCR. |
| 1988 |
Exhibition at the East － West Center in Honolulu, Hawai (Amerika
) |
| 1990 |
May, a solo exhibition at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies ( CSIS ) Jakarta. |
| 1991 |
June, a joint exhibition with Paul Nagano from the United
States at Museum Neka, Ubud, Bali. |
| 1992 |
August 14, Arie received a Global Medal "Dharma kusuma" Award
from the Balinese provincial government for his contribution
to the development of Balinese art of painting. |
| 1993 |
May, a solo exhibiton at santi fine Arts Galery, Jakarta. |
| 1999 |
A solo painting exhibition at Artfolio Gallery, Singapore |
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comment from BIDADARI :
Arie Smit ( Adianus Wilhelmus Smit ) was born in Zaandam, Holland,in
1916 April 15.
He first studied painting at the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam. In 1938
he came to Batavia ( Jakarta ) as a soldier and worked in the topography
division. He obtained his Indonesia citizenship in 1951. In 1956 he
visited in Bali for the first time, and he lived in Bali ever since.
He founded the young artists in Panestanan, Ubud, Bali, in 1960s. Until
his 80th birthday, which was in 1996, he had moved more than 30 times
from one place in Bali to another. "( I am always after tranquility
and clarity in life... I never like crowded places," he once said.
This personal preference turned out to be far from his own works, most
of which are rich with colors brilliance and light. The themes of his
works follows the road. The Balinese would call it "dari kaja ke kelod"
('from the mountain to the sea'). For his contribution to the development
of art in Bali, Arie Smit received the Dharma Kusuma Award from the
Balinese provincial government in 1992. |
art works :
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| "Flora Tropica" |
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