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About the artist: machyar gleuenta

Academic Classicism

 

(The artist also known as: Machyar M. Kumbang, Machyar M. Sulaiman, Machyar M. Solomon)

 

by Erik Ciel

Publisher/Art Consultant

 

 

 

achyar Gleuenta was born and raised in Acheh, a northern region of Sumatra the epicenter of the deadly earthquake and subsequent tsunami of December 26, 2004. (Acheh unfolded; before and after; aerial views; via NY Times may require reg)

He began his career in art working as an artist's helper in Acheh and continued to follow this path when he moved to Jakarta, Indonesia. It was during this time period that his talents came to the attention of both the local and international communities.

In 1994 Machyar participated in an exhibition in Jakarta at the National Gallery; this event brought together artists from many sections of Indonesia. That exhibition was the turning point for him and set him on a course that would ultimately bring him to America.

Two years later, Machyar received a full scholarship from the Maine College of Art in Portland Maine. Prior to departing for the United States, officials in the United States Embassy in Jakarta, as well as businessmen in Indonesia, helped raise the funds necessary for him to make his journey to America to begin his formal studies.

 

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Machyar during his training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts year 1998. The artist is executing a cast drawing of Benjamin Franklin.

In addition to the Maine College of Art, Machyar also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. The Academy is the oldest school of fine art in the United States and considered internationally to be one of the finest schools of figurative art in the world. Machyar's interests include painting, sculpture and printmaking. His portraits and landscapes are warm, inviting and classic in style. One of his landscapes, Serving Before Dusk, hangs in the home of the former ambassador to the United States from Indonesia.

People often comment that his landscapes and portraits are reminiscent of the "Old Masters". The tonal qualities of Machyar’s oil paintings are luxuriously luminescent and his interpretations have an amazing way of capturing nature's wild, "untamed" qualities and yet, at the same time, create in the viewer an almost sublime feeling of peace and tranquility—qualities that are too often in short supply in our unsettled times.

Machyar now resides in the United States.

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