A pair of smallies, miniatures if you like, which to Datuk Ibrahim Hussein made quick work done with spontaneity and alacrity. Quick lines here and there on top, and for the base either a flimsy trellis like a makeshift fence or the line-strobe composition floating in ambiguous space or emerging from nebulous aqueous space. The lines manifested as a dot that goes for a walk, mostly in tandem and in a curvilinear drive. Despite the small size, in pairs, well, it completes them. Without doubt, Datuk Ibrahim Hussein is one of the most extraordinarily gifted artists of Malaysia, world-class. Shown with the century's greatest artists, Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in a tripartite best-of-the-world representing Asia-America-Europe in Kuwait in 1977; a global Crystal Award recipient given by the World Economic Forum in 1997; and the first Malaysian taking part in the Venice Biennale under the aegies of the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970. Other outstanding awards are the Order of Andres Bello of Venezuela (1993), the Order of Bernardo Higgins (Chile's highest honour to a foreigner, 1996), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), and the XVIII Prix International D'Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo (1984). A three-time Datuk honorary, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986, and made the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007). He had, together with his wife Datin Sim, organised the Langkawi International Festival of Arts at his museum in Langkawi in 2000, and the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) in 1988 and Bali (Indonesia) in 1987. Ib had his art tutelage at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). He also received a double scholarship of Fulbright and John D. Rockefeller II Fund that saw him in the United States, with two solos in New York to boot.