Media item

Bambang Oetoro demonstrates batik art in first batik gallery

Week number: 77-50

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:36
Publication date:
1 January 1977
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
BG_10306

Batik paintings by Bambang Oetoro are exhibited in the first Dutch batik gallery in Amsterdam. This Indonesian artist still uses the old technique. SHOTS: woman admires batik paintings in a museum; close up Oetoro; Oetoro working on a batik painting: drawing with pencil and brush, then putting on the liquid wax with a wax pen, a so-called Tjanting, dipping the cloth in a dye bath and holding the cloth under hot tap water to remove the wax; several barik paintings by Oetoro.