Lucia Hartini often created dreamlike images in her works to represent her inner mental state and also it is a representational of the environment she is in. Hartini used dreams, imaginations and representations in her painting to comment on both her personal experiences and the society as she is unable to comment on these issues directly. It is due to the fact that it is illegal in the society of Indonesia, and also because of the fact that she is a woman, hence she do not have the right to openly express her inner emotions. In her society, women are not suppose to show how they feel and they must always appear to be graceful and calm. Hence, she can only express the issues and her inner emotions through her dreams, where her dreams are represented on the painting.
Also, by creating a dream-like world in her paintings, it is one of the best way o expess her emotions and feelings. It allows
her to express it in a surreal way, by irrationally combining unrelated objects together. By painting these, she allows the audience to see for themselves what she normally dreams and from there, they can then better relate to the artist
In "Sri Kandi", she created the work by arranging herself staring into numerous little eyes with no logic. Through the arrangement, the audience can then interpret that the eyes many symbolize the criticism of the society and that she is no longer afraid or boarded by them as she stares directly back into the small eyes, showing her courage and confidence.
She has indeed effectively combined their dreams into her works. As she painted each of her painting with great details, the works then seem to be really depicting the images in dreams. Due to her super surrealism style, where all objects are painted very realistically. The audience then seem to be able to relate easily to the paintings and go into Hartini's drams and feel the emotions that the artist is feeling. As when the audiences get to observe, feel and travel inside the artist's dreams, then audience will then be able to see the world from her perspective. In this way Hartini will be able effectively portray her current state of mind and views on the society to her audience.
It is evident in her works, like "Imagination XII" that although the work is very surreal, depicting cooking pans exploding in front of cosmic landscapes, the audience get to see the artist's dream and then understand what she is trying to portray. In this case, she is trying to portray Indonesia women's daily lives, and with all the explosions and intensity, the audience then know that the artist view the jobs of the women to be very hard, intensive and tiring. However, Indonesia women still need to maintain calmness on the outside, suggested by the calming landscapes of the background.
Overall, through adopting a surrealistic stule, she is able to express her inner feelings towards both the society and herself, without going against Indonesia society's protocol of women not being expressing their views and feelings. Also, she allows the viewers to have a tour in her dreams to allow them to understand and feel her emotions and views on the society more thoroughly. Thus, she achieved her goals of having her artworks to relate to the people through the style of super surrealism.
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