Abdul latiff mohidin biography of barack obama

Malaysian modernist painter, sculptor and poet

Abdul Latiff Mohidin or simply Latiff Mohidin (born 1941) is a Malaysian modernist painter, sculptor and poet. He is generally known for his body of paintings, sculptures and writings gathered under the term “Pago Pago” produced largely between 1964 and 1968.^[1]

Early life

Latiff Mohidin was born in Lenggeng, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia^[2] with roots in the Minangkabau community of West Sumatra, Indonesia.^[3] He received his formal primary education at Kota Raja Malay School in Singapore.^[1] His talent in painting later granted him the Deutscher Akademischer Austrauschdienst (DAAD) scholarship to study at the Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1960 until 1964.

Later in 1969, the French Ministry of Culture awarded him with a scholarship to study etching in Paris at the Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut, followed by a grant from the Asian Cultural Program of The JDR 3rd Fund (later kno