Natee's 'Faith And Doubt' (oil on linen, 2013). It is part of his 'Optimism Is Ridiculous' exhibition at the National Visual Arts Gallery in KL. Photos: RK Fine Art
If you think some of the paintings at the Optimism Is Ridiculous: Paintings On Figure Of Speech, Paradoxes And Inward Journey exhibition look familiar, it might be because you have seen something similar before, albeit in a different form.
Many of the works on display at the National Visual Arts Gallery (NVAG) in Kuala Lumpur echo the classical paintings, for instance, a docile lamb sitting pretty on a red cloth draws inspiration from French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’s Grande Odalisque from 1814, which depicts a reclining nude.
