Three men sits in a lay. The brush that already dipped acrylic paint slowly they drove on canvas. The eternal then the salary appears: the farmer in rice fields, the fish of the vinegar swimming, and the rose flower in the vase. That is the story of painting production in one of the corners of the lukis sanggar in the tourist area of Jelekong, Baleendah, Bandung Regency, West Java.
The shade of about 25 kilometers from the city of Bandung changed to cultural villages and tourists after nearly four decades of producing images or paintings in bulk.
The expertise of painting in the population of Jelekong was inherited down-tea. Odin Rohidin settlement was the first person who introduced the painting art in the village in 1970s. From Odin Rohidin, the citizens of the painter who then formed the painter village in Jelekong.
A painter finishes the paintings of the typical rural scenery
Colorful oil paint above the pallet
Currently hundreds of family heads in Jelekong hang out his life from the production of paintings. One of the owner of sanggar lurai, Willy, is the second generation in his family whose yellow painting business. His father, Haji Kosim, is one of Odin Rohidin students. Willy who houses 10 painters in the budget, can produce about 500 pieces of painting various sizes at the price range of Rp50,000 hinggga millions of rupiahs.
The paintings are marketed in addition to Braga area in Bandung, also to various cities such as Bali, Surabaya, Semarang, Jogjakarta, even to Malaysia.
Market interest will always change Jelekong painting. If the country’s signature scenery is the primadona market, now the fish painting of the koi and the abstract painting is slowly in demand for the market.
The number of paintings is disembled, while a worker checks plain canvas that will be used as media painting
The color runs between paintings that are sunbed and plain canvas in the painter village Jelekong
"Kunci to survive is always innovating and peka reading the taste of the market," said Willy, along the painter in the sanggarnya now paints not only with the brush, but also with pieces of sandals and foams.
Photos and text : Andika Wahyu.
Pemilik sanggar lukis Willy show paintings of his father's work, Haji Kosim
Pelukis drawings of rusty typical scenery in a sanggar lurai owned by Bandung Willy
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