Kajian Diferensiasi Artistik dalam Karya Seni Lukis Muhammad Yatim Mustafa

Abstract

Muhammad Yatim Mustafa is one of the senior artists in North Sumatra, starting with studying painting on his own to deepen his painting techniques from one of President Sukarno's palace painters named Dullah. The works of art created by M. Yatim throughout the decades have been heavily influenced by his teacher, especially in terms of visual elements. Artistic differentiation in each work of painting has ideology, thoughts and philosophies that give rise to the style of the artist's paintings. The embodiment of difference in diversity in the work of Painting M. Yatim has certain meanings to be understood. In recent years, M. Yatim has begun to explore his work in painting and has begun to find his identity in his work. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative research method. This study aims to describe the artistic differentiation of the structure of the visual elements represented in M. Yatim Mustafa's paintings, find the reasons for the occurrence of artistic differentiation of the visual element structures in works that are represented in M. Yatim Mustafa's paintings, and analyze the artist's psychic relationship with artistic differentiation the structure of visual elements in the work of M. Yatim's painting. To answer the problem, the aesthetic theory and the psychoanalytic theory of Lacan are used. The results obtained show that in Dullah's periodization and exploration periodization it was found that there are differences in visual elements, especially in color, shape, and space as well as the composition depicted in M. Yatim's paintings. The reason for the occurrence of artistic differentiation in work is influenced by changes in the paradigm of thinking of artists in making concepts and meanings based on life conflicts that affect them in their creative process. The exploratory work contains the artist's life philosophies in interpreting life values such as spiritual, religious and human values. The artist's psychological connection and artistic differentiation in his work is the fulfillment of the desire to understand his true self and deepest desire so as to find the artist's personal identity.