He is also co-founder of the Jendela artist group whose members, in the early phase of their careers, surprised art audiences in Indonesia with works that eschewed sociopolitical themes or efforts to capitalize on the technical
sophistication of realist painting.
In his output from early in that decade, with its elements
of fatalism and compositional
sophistication, one can see the seeds
of the poetic
realist tendency in French cinema, a style whose popularization Duvivier would have a fundamental hand in a few years later (along with the likes
of Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Jean Renoir, all
of whose work has come to overshadow Duvivier's).