Nature is a great gift that God gives to mankind. Nature can provide the science to a man in a form of understanding a new reality and changing existing to a better one. West Sumatra, a homeland of Minangkabau people, has abundant natural wealth which is a great support to the community. Land cultivation in West Sumatra is impossible to imagine without cattle.
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Cowherd By Satriady, Painting Acrylic on Canvas |
Nature is a great gift that God gives to mankind. Nature can provide the science to a man in a form of understanding a new reality and changing existing to a better one. West Sumatra, a homeland of Minangkabau people, has abundant natural wealth which is a great support to the community. Land cultivation in West Sumatra is impossible to imagine without cattle.
Cattle have been used in the life of the Minangkabau community, in addition to beef is also able to produce milk that can be consumed by humans, cowhide can also be processed for art craftsmen who produce and dirt is also beneficial to farmers. Adult cattle are commonly used to plow rice fields and other farmlands.
Cow herders are the ones responsible for the growth of the cows they maintain, in this case, some of the children are still children or adults, have participated responsibly for helping families in maintaining, caring for, and find green grass for cattle feed that is kept. The work of caring for and obtaining grass for cows has the hope of getting rewarded for the job of helping parents.
As a cowherd boy who has hope offered by parents at work. Based on the desired expectations, the imagination runs in the process of raising the cows, such as the desire to meet the needs of family food, the desire to buy an object, like other friends, with money earned from the sale of cow dung, wages for the services of plowing the fields, the results of the cow sales itself, and so forth.
In addition to helping to get the children’s work, the fantasy is also an encouragement for the shepherd boy in living everyday life, after being observed and reflected on the work of cattle herding is one-way parents educate their children to be independent, responsible and have a sense of the love of God’s creatures.
This is the realm of Teachers Soon. Therefore, their teachings and worldviews are represented in the petatah, petitih, pituah, mamangan, and others that take the expression of form, nature, and natural life [A.A. Navis, (1986: 59). Judging from the reality is a lot of scientists, artists of intellectuals and other intellectuals who studied, and created works of art that come from nature.
As one individual within the social community, want to respond to the memory stored in the creator of the past, which will be expressed in the artwork. The response is “aso anak gumbalo sapi”. which is about the shepherd’s child’s fetish in the process of raising his cows, and the lessons learned during the process of raising the livestock.
The reason for the initial interest in the creation of the ” Aso Anak Gumbalo Sapi ” which is an idea in the artwork based on the personal experience of the creator of the work which is also a child of the cowherd family, besides cattle is one of the tame animals that are so close in the life of the people in the village page creator in Nagari Talang Babungo, and animals including animals that can help alleviate the work in various fields and increase the economy of society in various regions in Minangkabau and hold the philosophy of “Alam Takambang Jadi Guru” (The Developed Realm of Teacher). So evocative and touch the creator’s feelings to take inspiration in the art. Such is the description of “Aso Anak Gumbalo Sapi”, which inspires the creator’s feeling to express the memory stored in the creator and the creator wants to express it in the form of painting, with the flow of Surrealist Art.
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