This work with the tell-tale rhythmic lines as enunciation of forms or ornamental fluff is definitely post-1975 when Ibrahim Hussein, later made a Datuk, was given graphic pens by Sim, later his wife, during his art residency at Universiti Malaya. Here, the cacing (worm) lines looks tentative and less as a whiplash parallel spirals, against splotches and blotches that bewilder perspectival space, and bunched in an irregular organic oval. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein is the epitome genius of Malaysian Art, celebrated internationally by five prominent accolades: 1) Being awarded the world-class Crystal Award (World Economic Forum); 2) Selected with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in the Best-of-the-World tripartite exhibition in Kuwait in 1977; 3) First Malaysian taking part in the Venice Biennale (1970); 4) Winning an award in the XVIII Prix International D'Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo (1984); 5) Honoured with the Order of Andres Bello of Venezuela (1993), the Order of Bernardo Higgins (Chile's highest honour to a foreigner, 1996), and the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988). At home, he was given a Retrospective at the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (1986), and bestowed the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007) besides being conferred the Datuk title three times. He organised the inaugural Langkawi International Festival of Arts (2000), after setting up his museum and foundation, and organised, with the help of his wife, Datin Sim, 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, and received the double scholarships of Fulbright and John D. Rockefeller II Fund.