Interior Landscape (1)

Latiff Mohidin (1941), born in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia completed his primary education in Singapore. While in Singapore, his precocity in understanding paintings at an early age, earned him the nickname, �'Wonder Boy'�. From 1960 to 1964, Latiff studied art at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Berlin, Germany and did brief residencies in Paris and New York. Inspired by his exploration of Southeast Asia in 1964, Latiff has since produced a series of compelling artworks -� the result of a synthesis between his European experience and the rediscovery of his homeland. He is also a poet who has published several volumes of poetry. Latiff started to use landscape as a subject and composition in the 1950s. The Interior Landscape series can be seen as a development from the monochromatic Landscape series. The adoption of primary colours, naively sketched, depicting the fluidity of movements, reveals Latiff'�s interiority � his youthful inner energy. The visibility of the highlighted frame that clearly contains the �activity�, symbolizes Latiff'�s request: inviting the viewers to receive and accept the emphasis of his imaginary mindscape and passion in interpreting the movements of nature.