Footnotes

• Arie Smit was born in Zaandam, The Netherlands in 1916. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam. In 1938 he was sent to the Dutch East Indies for military service where he worked as a lithographer for the Dutch army's topographical service in Batavia. In 1942, he was transferred to the infantry in East Java where he was captured by the Japanese and spent three and a half years in a labor camp. After the war, he returned to the new Republic of Indonesia. He became an Indonesian citizen in 1951 and taught graphics and lithography at the Institut Teknologi Bandung in West Java. He also painted during this period and held his first exhibit in 1953 in Palembang. In 1956 he settled in Bali. He was the founder of the 'School of Young Artists' a group of young Balinese who created a naive style of genre painting which became known as the 'Young Artist's' style. At its peak, this movement had 300-400 followers.

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Category: Asian Art

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