The Great Way to Start: Visit Museum Affandi

Ok, in this opportunity I’m going to share to you about what I get from visited Museum Affandi. As we know each other, Affandi was an Indonesian artist and most people know if Affandi was from Yogyakarta, but the fact is he was from Cirebon. I got this information when I was visited the museum with my friends (Regita, Tido, Vita, and Yolanda).

First thing first, Museum Affandi lies in Jalan Adisucipto 167, on the west bank of Gajahwong River. When you arrived at the page of the museum, you could see there are three galleries, which is permanently exhibit the collection paintings. The first gallery is used for the retrospective exhibition of Affandi’s works from his early years of painting until his last moments. Oh I forget tell you something, when we were at the museum, we were guided with Pak Hudan which is he was the alumnus on FIB UGM too. And he tell a little story about FIB and Sasindo (because we said we’re from Sasindo hehe).

The second gallery is used for exhibit the collection from famous artist, the artists have relation with Affandi’s life exactly. There are also Affandi’s great sketch paintings that I like. Affandi said that th sketch itu sama aja harganya apabila dijual, soalnya sama sama pake emosi yang sama saat dibuatnya. The last but not least, the third gallery is used for exhibit the collection from Affandi’s family.

For me, by visiting Museum Affandi, we can know about Affandi’s life without met him face to face. We could learn so much things from Affandi caused visiting this museum. Affandi inspiring me a lot. I think he is such a really nice person, he always see people or something who has suppressed. From that case, Affandi poured his imagination and reality into a canvas.

Affandi really interested to help someone on his circle life. I assumed this thing by saw his painting also get the information from Pak Hudan. The most important is, Affandi very love his family and loving animal or the fellow creatures.