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Raden Saleh

Raden Saleh Sjarif Bestaman (1807 - April 23, 1880) is one of the best known painters from Indonesia. Raden Saleh, that was born into the noble Javanese family in 1807, was a pioneer of modern Indonesian art.

Although he was the first Indonesian artist to depict in the West style, the fact that he expressed the identity and the inventiveness in his work (seditentang to the traditional approach that stressed spread-culture the form and the established style) showed the method for the artist's Indonesian candidate to express their idea of being personally freer.
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