Favorite Artwork From National Art Gallery

From the first moment i saw this painting, i fell in love with it. This painting was titled as 'Sarang tebuan jangan dijolok' and the artist of this painting is Zulkifli Yusof.

This painting was divided into 3 section with 2 different colors. The painting suits the title well as the artist emphasize a big bee in the middle with white background creating contrast, and a repetition of a bee around it in shape of movement on the left & right side in red background color. On the top part ( left & right ) of the painting, the bee still has its shape but as it goes lower, it only has a buzzing black lines but still have some shape of a bee, to show a sense of movement. You can feel like the bee is moving around the whole frame.

Here some info about the artist,

Zulkifli Yusof
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- born in kedah
- 1985 ~ 1989 : studied at MARA Institute of Technology ( I.T.M ) School of Art and Design, Malaysia
- 1989 ~ 1991 : studied at Manchester Polytecnic Faculty of Art and Design, U.K.

His public collection was located in
1 - Bank Negara Malaysia
2 - School of Art and Design I.T.M Malaysia.
3 - Singapore Muzeum and Gallery.
4 - Kedah State Gallery.
5 - Fukuoka Muzeum of Art Japan.
6 - Hiroshima Art Muzeum.

For more info about the artist background, log on to http://www.nngallery.com.my/cof/37/.




For my second favorite artwork, its called "Mulakan dengan bismillah" from Suhaimi Fadzir ( sorry for the side view picture. was hiding from the security guard when the picture was taken =P ).

This artwork consist of multiple medium in it. The first time i saw the image, i thought of Palestin's war state & suffering of the civilians. The painter tried to show state of war in the name of god. It emphasis on Muslim's god name Allah, with a splash of colors from gray to black as its background to give contrast to the god's name. The splash background reflected as the blood spilled on the ground, while the brown circle on the left side act as a bullet hole. On the right side you can see a grass or rattan root shows as blood coming out from wounds. The 2 steel rod at the bottom with chain most probably the painter trying to say that both Palestin & Israel is tied to each other & the war will always go on. There is one more thing in the artwork which complete the whole painting but due to the poor image quality, you might not see it. Around the whole frame, there is a lot of short wood stick resembles bullet shells.

I could not find the artist biography but here some info i manage to find about him.

Suhaimi Fadzir
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- Worked as an architect for 15 years before became full-time artist

- His residence-turned-art studio called Keli Sanctuary located at 23, Jalan Kelab Ukay 4, Taman Kelab Ukay, Bukit Antarabangsa, Kuala Lumpur.

- Also has a studio in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

- Called his artwork "archipainting" - a fusion of art and architecture.







Wished could snap a proper picture of these artworks. sigh....