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Figure 1. BOLEH !,
Chan Kok Hooi 2003.
Acrylic on canvas, 52cm x 185cm.
National Visual Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Figure 2. Someone Forgotten (Dream and Reality),
Wong Woan Lee 1999
Oil painting on canvas, 137cm x 176cm.
National Visual Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The first artwork BOLEH! was done by a Malaysian talented artist Chan Kok Hooi , he was born in 1974 in Penang, Malaysia. Chan was get a Full Scholarship Art Award of Malaysian Institute of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1992. Chan's art education came through the Malaysian Institute of Art where he graduated with Diploma in Fine Art majoring in Painting. (Chan K.H, 2014)The second artwork SOMEONE FORGOTTEN was also done by another talented Malaysian artist Wong Woan Lee, born in 1970. Wong was educated in Kuala Lumpur College of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1992. Both of these college have a very strong education of fine art. (Tan.A, 2013)

For the first selected painting was BOLEH! Chan used acrylic on 152cm x 185cm canvas to draw out this artwork. In this painting had the dark & bright side. Sunlight shining through the window on the left shows the part of bright and relative to the right of the whole image was show the dark part. On other way, In the painting of BOLEH! Chan placed a Roman Fighter who has a huge figure in the right part of the whole painting. There was also a Malaysian soldier who wears Milo battle outfit and abstract Malaysia flag mask and riding motorcycle in the upper left corner of this painting. Both of them looks like want to fight. That’s why makes this painting looks more interesting. The painting show that local people tried to protect their home and country from the Roman fighter. It can be seen that there was a half dead body which without head and there were a lot of flies on it on a palette at the foreground of this painting to show

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