Visitors look at Mohamad Hassan’s painting titled Hadrah: Alunan Dari Bendang, (Akrilik on Canvas) at the OPen Exhibition 2015 at Gallery Shah Alam.November 17, 2015.ROHAIZAT MD DARUS/STAR.
VISUAL artists must employ critical-thinking to their individual improvement and use creative expression to highlight socio-economic issues, political upheavals and daily struggles faced by the people.
Tun Daim Zainuddin, who served as Malaysia’s Finance Minister from 1984 to 1991, said paintings were outlets for all visual artists to become social critics on the economic downturn, political upheavals and issues affecting people at large.
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