Studied in Art Student League in New York and strongly influenced by modernism and abstract expressionism. Sadali became a leading avant-garde artist in the Indonesian’s post-war art. Sadali began to develop a distinctive style of his art in abstract patterns that are then blended with the themes of spirituality and mysticism of Islam. His impulse of exploration of colors, shapes and space never failed. A pursuit his emotional expression onto canvas plays an important role to illustrate his ideological concept of art, and is appeared on this oeuvre painted in 1967. The tendency of dividing surface by blocks and formalizing space with a process of embodying shapes can be seen an influence of cubism, which adds a volum...