Image size: H25.5 x xW20.8 cm
Latiff Mohidin, born in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia in 1941 completed his primary education in Singapore. While in Singapore, at an early age, Latiff’s precocity in understanding paintings earned him the nickname, ‘Wonder Boy’. From 1960-1964, 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 compelling series of 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. By examining the form-units and hues, ‘Interior Landscape (4)’ could have been drawn while transiting from the Interior Landscape series to the Landscape series. The closely packed form-units are maintained within an apparent frame, an attribute akin to the Interior Landscape series, while the muted colour palette is a feature of the Landscape series.
