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Go Tik Swan 诞辰 90 周年 |
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Google Doodle：2021年5月11日 Go Tik Swan 诞辰 90 周年 |
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Today’s Doodle celebrates Indonesian artist Go Tik Swan, a contemporary master of the ancient art form of designing fabric with hot wax known as batik.
Go Tik Swan was born on this day in 1931 in Solo, Central Java,
Indonesia. He came of age frequenting his grandfather’s batik
workshops, where he absorbed Javanese cultural knowledge from local
craftspeople. Fascinated by his ancestry, Swan further explored his
heritage by studying Javanese literature and dance at the University
of Indonesia.
It was during one of his college dance performances that Indonesia’s
president caught wind of Swan’s family background in batik
manufacturing and commissioned him to create a new batik style; one
that he believed could transcend division and unite the Indonesian
people. In the 1950s, Swan fulfilled the president’s request by
combining regional batik techniques to introduce “Batik Indonesia.”
Swan held such high reverence for his craft that he considered each
piece of batik to carry philosophical meaning, even developing a
motif in the 70s entitled Kembang Bangah (“Rotten
Flowers'') as a love letter to his national identity. An expert in
Javanese culture, he was also a master of kris (an ancient Javanese
ceremonial dagger tradition) and a skilled player of gamelan (a
popular orchestral form of traditional Indonesian music). He gave
back so much to his heritage, the Surakarta government honored him
with the noble title of Panembahan Hardjonegoro. Happy birthday, Go Tik Swan! |
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