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A colourful odyssey centred around slanted rising streaks veering towards the left with visible sparing curvy ribbed lines on top. A mass blob separates the calm blue yonder on top while wavy slivers of brown sits at the bottom. Scant presence of Datuk Ibrahim Hussein's rhythmic lines. Indeed, this work betrays a departure from Ib's standard formal clarity of more decipherable shapes, showing a tendency towards a brush lark though somewhat restraint. The extraordinarily gifted Datuk Ibrahim Hussein is a world-class international icon. 1) He was chosen for the tripartite Best-Of-The-World Contemporary Art with Andy Warhol (USA), Salvador Dali (Europe) and he representing Asia in Kuwait in 1977; 2) He was given the prestigious Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum in 1997; 3) The first  Malaysian in the Venice Biennale, albeit under the aegies of the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970; 4) International country awards from Venezuela (Order of Andres Bello, 1993), Chile (Order of Bernardo Higgins, 1996) and Japan (Japan Foundation Cultural Award, 1988). Much is also made of his triumph in the XVIII Prix International D'Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo (1984). A three-time Datuk honorary, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986, and made the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007). He had, together with his wife Datin Sim, organised the Langkawi International Festival of Arts at his museum in Langkawi in 2000, and the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) in 1988 and Bali (Indonesia) in 1987. He was educated at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting and the Royal Academy in London in London. He won the Fulbright and John D. Rockefeller II Fund scholarships and had two solos in New York.