For you who have young in the era of the 1980s and 1990s whose name is certainly familiar with Lupus, Hilman Hariwijaya fictional essay, one of the leading writers of the period. At the beginning of its appearance, lupus is a short story written for the magazine Hilman Hai in 1986.
Lupus short story has received very good response among teenagers because of a funny story with unique characters. Lupus then used as the novel that made him famous to all over Indonesia, even until today.
Discussing about Lupus, it's not afdhol if you do not introduce the illustrator who has presented visually to the reader Lupus. He is Wedha Abdul Rashid, a teen magazine illustrator in Hai which is also often mentioned as the father of Illustrator Indonesia because of the contribution and his works in the field of illustration and fine arts.
Profession as an illustrator has done Wedha the poor across the print media since the 1970s. Starting 1977, when joined with Hi magazine, he made a lot of illustrations, especially the works of fiction Arswendo Atmowiloto Hilman with Lupus and its phenomenal. In the magazine's Wedha do portraits of world leaders from all backgrounds: political figures, musicians, artists, to fictional characters.
In 1990, Wedha then start a new style for the illustration of face images. This is thought due to decrease in the power of vision because of age who have reached 40 years so it is difficult to draw a face in the form of a realistic and detailed. Wedha then try to picture cubism style illustration. This style is then grown and increasingly popular as part of popart style even up to now. Illustration style is called Wedha's Pop Art portrait (WPAP), and some even call it a flow Wedhaism.
See the works Wedha. Typical form and technique, he described the faces of the figures are arranged in a mosaic of color that is broken down by facet-fasetnya. Not in the sense of cubism, but more variety of colors that harmoniously combine to form a figure depicted. Although his work does not detail, but able to represent the character's face very well.
You will be able to recognize the faces of the world, like Mick Jagger, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Sting, Bono, Queen, until politicians figure call it JFK, Bung Karno, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Buttho, Fidel Castro, Ahmadinejad.Also portrait Renda, Slank, Jakob Oetama, John Lennon to Andy Warhol. After 30 years of doing business in the world of illustration Wedha end his tenure at the Kompas Gramedia.
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