Tay Mo-Leong Retrospective, Penang State Museum & Art Gallery, 2009, p. 225
Provenance
Private collection, Selangor
Description
Oleg dance is a beautiful dance originated from Bali. It is regarded as the dance of the bumblebees where there is a female and a male character involved in a single dance. The male bee dancer usually appears to be obsessively flirtatious chasing the female bee from one flower to another flower. Oleg dance is also one of the numerous animal-themed dances in Bali apart from Barong dance, Cenderawasih dance and many more.
Dato’ Tay Mo Leong graduated from the Taipei Normal College in 1960. In 1970, he studied at the Art Centre in Florida, USA. He was given the Foreign Minister’s Award and exhibited at the Nippon Modern Art Association, Osaka, Japan in 1997, and the Osaka Government Award in Japan in 2003. He was conferred Dato’ship, by Penang State Government in 2009, the year the Penang State Museum & Art Gallery honoured him with a Retrospective.