AESTHETIC VALUE OF CONTEMPORARY BATIK WORKS WITH URBAN AND OUTER SPACE THEMES

Abstract

The artists who express their work in fabric media with batik and collage techniques in this paper are Wendy Sibarani and Dina Vitalienitas Lestari, both of whom have interesting visual images and creation processes that can be studied because they have distinctive characteristics and self-concepts that are influenced by the impulse of memory, imagination, and creativity that have an impact on the image that describes itself. The method used is qualitative research, the theoretical study used in this research is related to the theory of the illustration analysis process, in this case using the theory of fine art review, comparative descriptive. Ideas always exist in every work produced by an artist, such as personal reflection, social expression, expression of memory individual experience of the artist, and other aspects. In Wendy Sibarani's work, The Expression of Urban Society, she displays the beauty of the city of Jakarta because of the artist's personal experience of seeing many people living in Jakarta who have difficulty living in a big city with all its problems. Dina Vitalienitas Lestari's work is also a reflection of her fondness for extraterrestrials, aliens, and UFOs, as an expression of individual experience and expressed in the work with the artist's personal language aesthetic value.