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The ribbons of lines springing from various trajectory animate the pink swathe. Here, the bunched lines are more pronounced, suggesting rhythmic movements with little squiggles of darker strokes. Lines that are used to even define forms like an ambiguous figure or two here subsume into an ornamentative veneer, coyly teasing the eye in coquettish play. Lines that resemble fingerprints to mark one's identity figure like a sarong print for one who didn't have fingerprints, like inchoate islands of patterns with echoes of mountain contours, perhaps. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein was the first Malaysian artist featured in the Venice Biennale (Smithsonian Institute Workshop, 1970). In 1977, he exhibited alongside Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in Kuwait. He was a celebrity recipient of the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997). In 1986, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery. He celebrated the opening of his Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Cultural Foundation in Langkawi in 2000 with the Langkawi International Festival of Arts. He had also organised the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali (Indonesia). He won the Monte Carlo art prize in 1984 and was awarded Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), and Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996), besides the Japan Foundation Award (1988) and the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007). He studied at the Byam Shaw School (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966).