Frame size: H92.8 x W74.3 x D2.5 cm
Yusman Aman, born in Batu Pahat, Johore, Malaysia in 1939, is largely a self-taught artist as he had declined a scholarship to the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the early 1960s due to family commitments. While working in Singapore as a commercial artist, he had the opportunity to exhibit regularly alongside other well-known artists and represented Singapore in the Adelaide Festival of Arts in the early 1970s. Yusman returned to Malaysia in the mid-1970s where he became the first local artist to open his own an art gallery.Yusman, who started with figurative paintings before moving on to Lyrical Abstraction, gained prominence when he utilized the traditional batik medium and injected modernist influences. ‘Rhythm in Blue II’, a geometric composition, explores formal properties of form, colour and the unique crackling (hairline) effect of batik. Although undated, this painting was selected and reproduced on a Singapore postage stamp in 1972.
