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Common belief

2010-07-30T23:55:00.000-07:00

Title: Syiah and Sunni

Year: 2010

Media: acrylic on canvas

Colors are what matter most.

2010-07-30T23:43:00.000-07:00

Title: Struggling Jemaah

Year: 2010

Media: Acrylic on canvas

Title: Empat Segi Rukuk

Year: 2010

Media: Acrylic on canvas

NOT EVERY TIME ARE WE IN GOOD POSITION

2010-03-24T23:09:00.001-07:00

This is an old series.

Only today I'm comfortable to share them.

Hope it will strike your bones...

1) Title: Not Every Time Are We In Good Position I

Year: 2007

Media: Charcoal on paper

2) Title: Not Every Time Are We in Good Position II

Year: 2007

Media: Charcoal on paper

3) Title: Not Every Time Are We in Good Position III

Year: 2007

Media: Charcoal on paper

4) Title: Untitled

Year: 2007

Media: Mixed media

5) Title: Kena Ketuk dan Pijak

Year: 2007

Media: Charcoal on paper

6) Title: Awkward

Year: 2007

Media: Acrylic on paper

a POEM: THE TRUTH

2010-03-17T09:48:00.000-07:00

Title: Kena Ketuk dan Pijak

Year: 2007

Media: Charcoal on paper

THE TRUTH

23 February 2010

Suave like a dog

Clean like a pig

Brave like a hooker

Smart like a fraudster

Filthy like an MP

Horny like a priest

Stupid like a teacher

Sincere like a devil

WOMAN ARTIST

2010-03-04T19:04:00.000-08:00

Title: Woman artist

Year: 2001

Media: Oil on paper

To Kathe Kollwitz.....

Yes, the composition is taken from certain great Picasso's painting.

SURAT ADAM DAN ADELEA KEPADA YANG BERHORMAT PERDANA MENTERI MALAYSIA.

2010-02-10T06:59:00.001-08:00

Surat ADAM:

Perdana Menteri,

Saya seorang murid sekolah SJK(C) Chung Hwa (P) Kuala Lumpur dari kelas 4K. Saya menulis surat ini untuk memberitahu beberapa perkara yang saya berikan perhatian.

Pertama, tentang kebersihan bandar tempat saya tinggal. Bandar Melawati amat kotor. Pendududuk terutamanya peniaga suka membuang sampah merata-rata. mereka mementingkan diri sendiri sahaja. Pihak berkuasa juga tidak menahan mereka. Bandar saya menjadi busuk dan bertukar menjadi sarang tikus.

Kedua, pemandu kenderaan juga suka membuang sampah merata-rata. Mereka juga suka meludah. Mereka juga menyebabkan kesesakkan lalu lintas bila mereka meletakkan kereta sesuka hati.

Ketiga, ramai kawan-kawan saya tidak menghormati binatang. Ikan di dalam kolam di sekolah saya selalu dibaling dengan batu. Banyak ikan telah mati. Saya tidak suka sikap tidak menghormati binatang.

Saya sayangkan Malaysia. Saya tak mahu negara saya menjadi busuk, tidak teratur dan tiada ikan.

Satu Malaysia mesti bersih, mengikut peraturan, mematuhi undang-undang dan baik terhadap binatang.

Sekian, terima kasih.

Yang benar,

ADAM BIN BADRUDDIN SYAH

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Surat ADELEA:

XXKepada Perdana Menteri,

Saya Adelea dari SJK(C) Chung Hwa (P) Kuala Lumpur. Saya di dalam kelas 2M.

Pertama, saya selalu nampak poster-poster di jalan raya. Poster itu ada banyak nombor telefon, cerita tentang tuisyen, ubat dan rumah untuk dijual. Saya tak suka poster ditampal merata-rata tempat. Poster-poster itu membuat bandar saya tidak cantik.

Kedua, banyak juga conteng berlaku di dinding-dinding bangunan. Lukisan mereka tidak cantik. Bapa saya cakap, mereka conteng di dinding yang bukan mereka punya. Bandar saya menjadi buruk.

Saya mahu Malaysia menjadi lebih baik dan bersih. Sekian, terima kasih.

Yang benar,

ADELEA BINTI BADRUDDIN SYAH

Jantung Doktor Jantung

2009-10-25T22:09:00.000-07:00

Bagaimana bila jantung orang lain dipertaruhkan kepada kita?? Bagaimana kita yang berjantung bermain jantung orang lain??

Jantung Doktor Jantung mengimbas saat genting seorang pakar bedah jantung bermain dengan jantung pesakit.

Title: Jantung Doktor Jantung
Year: 2009
Media: Acrylic on canvas

SELF PORTRAIT

2009-10-01T22:24:00.000-07:00

Title: Red Self Portrait

Year: 1997

Media: Oil on board

I'm in Sabah, meeting my good friend, on his MacBook Pro he kept this picture of my self portrait which is in his possession. I took the opportunity to upload it here. I used to have an issue with this painting back then but not anymore today. I'm at peace with myself.

NEW JEMAAH

2009-09-22T00:46:00.000-07:00

Title: Jemaah '09

Media: Acrylics on canvas

Year: 2009

JEMAAH ABSTRAK

2009-08-18T21:35:00.001-07:00

"I don't use the accident. I deny the accident."-
Jackson Pollock

Title: Rukuk Abstrak
Year: 2006
Media: Oil on canvas

Title: Berdiri
Year: 2007
Media: Acrylic on canvas

Title: Perhubungan, After that great Steel Sculpture by S.A.J
Year: 2000 - 2006
Media: Oil on canvas

"Perhubungan" might look simple but as usual, an exterior can always be deceiving. It is very small actually(again, the look on your screen can be deceiving), and nicer with a frame. The Syed Ahmad Jamal's sculpture I'm referring to is the one at the Balai Seni Lukis Negara. I had always feel awestriken when I see this piece as the feeling of the metal had been pulled from two different sides suggesting unbearable tension. Oh, "Perhubungan" the painting is by no mean a match to that great sculpture.
*Perhubungan is not with me anymore.

Landscape

2009-08-18T21:16:00.001-07:00

"I don't paint nature, I am nature."-
Jackson Pollock

Title: Jemaah Sejuk
Year: 2007
Media: Mixed media on canvas

When we open the door of our house, the first thing we'll see is the white painting or the official title for it is "Jemaah Sejuk,(2007)." This painting had gone through a multi layering process which at one point had made my friend, Sap, really excited about it. However, I kept on working on it until one day, a collector who came over, expressed her interest in the work. Since I haven't finished with it yet, I kept on working until it reached its current stage. That was in 2007. Fast forward to 2009, it has been hanged there about a year by now. I like it very much as it brings some winter memory back then in the cold Milwaukee, especially the quiet drive thru from Maryland to downtown passing the frozen lake and the still "in progress" Calatrava's additional of M.A.M. Btw, Sap and the collector's interest on the work had deminished.

Title: Jemaah Biru
Year: 2007
Media: Acrylic on canvas

Jemaah Biru is very small on two pieces canvas. The brushstrokes are very controlled, suggesting the artist is working on a very limited space. The colors play an important role as when I started, the color scheme was very yellowish, which I don't like it as the element of dirt/earth was too strong. Here, with the Blue, the unreal atmosphere is present and amazingly it has defected the white from actually representing snow/coldness.
*Jemaah Biru is hanged in my studio.

Title: Jemaah Hijau
Year: 2007
Media: Oil on canvas

Jemaah Hijau is painted on an overworked self-portrait. That explained the thick application of colors. When I finally feel at ease with this painting, the colors had started to blend nicely and the structure of the mountain has come out. The unreal blue sky is my favorite for its dreamy presentation of reality and also the hollowness of the middle part of the green that suggesting the structure of the ground.

Why all landscapes are still a Jemaah? I painted them in a similar way as the jemaah drawings.

Latest Hanging

2009-08-12T19:09:00.001-07:00

Title: Girl Power

Year: 2001

Media: Oil on canvas

Where: At RA Fine Arts, No. 6 Jalan Aman, 55000 KL. 12 - 16 August 2009

Mendokumentasikan data-data untuk masa depan

2009-05-24T09:55:00.000-07:00

Title: Filing system: Unwanted files but too precious to dump
Media: Charcoal on paper
Year: 2006

I made this picture upon stumbling a room full of soggy and neatly kept documents meant for the future. I love the natural fermentation process of papers. Anselm Kiefer might like it too.
*Some Docmentation series were posted earlier in 2008.

RED

2009-05-14T11:59:00.000-07:00

Title: Red Jemaah(arise)

Year: 2003-2006

Media: Oil on canvas

Rukuk

2009-05-14T11:57:00.000-07:00

Tajuk: Jemaah Rukuk
Tahun: 2002
Media: Dakwat atas kertas

Tajuk: Rukuk
Tahun: 2000

Media: Arang dan akrilik atas kertas

This is not an Art Installation

2009-05-14T11:36:00.000-07:00

Title: This Is Not an Art Installation

Media: Photograph

Year: 2009

"This is Not an Art Installation" is not an art installation. It's a view from the edge of a private property. As a private property, I'm only allowed myself to view the scene from its edge and admired the freedom of a property from an outsider p.o.v. This particular "scenic view" caught my attention late last year and when i took the picture the original vision that i was drawn into has not changed. what is more interesting, as till yesterday, the box is still standing like it is.

The self-destruct virgin of the land in the name of private property. i love it. it's a total freedom of choice.

DREAMS.........

2009-03-18T01:16:00.001-07:00

Karya 1:

Tajuk: Lemas Dalam Mimpi
Tahun: 2008
Media: Arang atas kertas

LEMAS DALAM MIMPI, satu ulasan pengkritik(dengan izin).
Lu lemas?
Orang lemas lebih baik daripada orang yang terbang di angkasaraya.
Orang lemas sebab dia berat idea.
Orang terbang sebab dia ringan, tak perlukan idea.
Lu tahu kenapa dia terbang. Sebab dia dah berjaya!
Kita perlu lemas dahulu, baru boleh terbang ke angkasaraya.

Karya 2:

Tajuk: Mimpi Berat
Tahun: 2008
Media: Arang atas kertas

MIMPI BERAT, satu ulasan pengkritik(dengan izin).
Hidup ini memang satu beban yang berselirat nan berat. Lu tahu apa itu komitmen? Komitmen itu kerja manusia yang paling serius yang aku tahu. Orang kata manusia matang yang mengemudi hidup secara serius akan menganggap komitmen itu rutin harian sesantai menghirup kafein teh dan kolestrol roti canai di kedai mamak setiap pagi. Memikul impian yang berat bukanlah masalah kepada mereka yang obses dengan kejayaan.

Manusia yang obses dengan impian.
Impian adalah satu struktur konkrit yang kita bina dalam diri sejak sekian lama. Ia mula menjadi berselirat bila kita selalu memikirkannya tetapi tetap gagal memberi fokus, komitmen dan displin. Lalu, ia semakin berpintal-pintal dalam fikiran kerana mahu mencari titik kejayaan.
Impian, ia memang membebankan selagi kita belum mencapai kejayaan. Pikul beban ini dengan segala kudrat dan mulakan melangkah.
Kegarisan. Sedia. Pecut!
__________
*Secara teknikal, lukisan ini hampir lengkap kecuali kedudukan kaki subjek di hadapan (kiri). Sedikit janggal mungkin kerana cara ianya terlalu mencapah ke luar atau stroke yang (sengaja?) dikaburkan. Kelebihan lukisan ini adalah kolabro sharp stroke di sukuan atas dan kaki kanan subjek dan smooth stroke di tempat lain. Dan kudrat jiwa raga yang dihentak oleh lutut kaki kanan subjek.

Karya 3:

Tajuk: Selamat Tinggal Mimpi
Tahun: 2008
Media: Arang atas kertas

Nota: Karya 1 dan 2 pernah dipamerkan di RA Fine Arts, Kuala Lumpur pada Oktober 2008, merupakan sebahagian daripada pameran "Aspects of Malaysian Arts."

JEMAAH KEDAMAIAN

2009-03-18T00:58:00.000-07:00

Atas:

Tajuk: Jemaah, Merpati Mati

Tahun: 2009

Media: Akrilik atas kanvas

Bawah:

Tajuk: Jemaah, Merpati Terbang

Tahun: 2009

Media: Akrilik atas kanvas

Nota: Kedua-dua karya dipamerkan di dalam pameran Peace: An Expression of Hope di Persidangan Belia Antarabangsa "Youth on Terrorism" yang diadakan pada 24-28 Februari 2009 di Nikko Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

SMK TONGGANG LANGGANG, KUALA LUMPUR

2009-02-26T19:35:00.000-08:00

Taken from the original picture when the contractor was renovating the old Science Lab under the "Naik Taraf" program.

-art4themasses

Hiding in Hole

2009-02-22T21:19:00.000-08:00

Title: Hiding in Hole

Year: 2008-2009

Media: acrylic on canvas

Conflict VS Agree

2009-01-28T22:08:00.001-08:00

Conflict

Agree

a DAY WITHOUT YOU

2009-01-28T21:23:00.000-08:00

a DAY WITHOUT YOU

nice day
everybody's eating ice-cream
I've finished mine a day before

email
I check, I send
nothing from you
I type one for you

a solution for a problem
try hard to create
even I know
end result is a fake

a day without you
is always be the same
as I can't have you.

- art4themasses, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA- September 26, 1996

- artwork by art4themasses and Kelvin Chap Kok Leong

Visual Noise.

2008-12-29T12:05:00.000-08:00

"THE NEW DAWN MY ASS!!"

Inspired by Calatrava's Milwaukee Art Museum Wings

2008-12-29T11:41:00.000-08:00

Somewhere in Wangsa Maju.

The Sin

2008-12-16T10:38:00.000-08:00

Day by day
everyday
I call your name
night and day

I know you're there
hear and see
all my deeds
without a blink

I can't run
because I am
a vehicle
without a wheel

-art4themasses (1995)

Moral and Ethical issues

2008-11-21T02:38:00.000-08:00

Title: Kacau bilau burung-burung hitam
Year: 2003
Media: Mixed
Whereabout: Destroyed

Title: Orang no.7
Year: 2007
Media: Charcoal on paper

"Selfishness is good in pursuing one's goal but has to be treated with doses of conscience. Universal moral and ethical behavior need to be observed without fail."
-art4themasses

and

"the trait of a strong human being is: let your consciousness rules even so-much-so you understand that subconscious mind can influence your choices. Then your subconscious IS your conscious."
-art4themasses

Titles: Self-portraits Whereabout: Lost

2008-11-17T20:22:00.000-08:00

two self-portraits i left in Bukit Sentosa 7years ago.. an act i regret since two years ago.

Background:

Done in 1996-1997.

Oil on canvas.

"I suggest you pay more attention to those sweet-talkers around, nowadays they're more dangerous than an ambush by wild animals. Beware!"

-art4themasses

Documentation series: Buku-buku, kertas dan fail yang bermacam-macam.

2008-11-14T19:27:00.000-08:00

Title: Rotten Lesson Plans
Year: 2006
Media: Charcoal on paper

"While the newly middle-class still panting from yesterday's dog-chase, nothing much has changed; the Malaysian Tatler still features those same ugly-people-with-money from page to page."

-art4themasses

first day

2008-11-14T18:27:00.001-08:00

For the image on this posting, it is taken from the Jemaah series:

Title: Jemaah Rukuk
Year: 2004-2008

Media: charcoal and collage on paper

"Jihad lembut, jihad kasar....
Gua punya suka laa......"

-art4themasses