Tay Bak Koi lived from 1939 to 2005. One of the most accomplished student of Cheong Soo Pieng, Tay Bak Koi is most recognized for his nostalgic scenes of villages, laconic bulls on grassland, as well as his cubist treatment of kelongs -as exemplified by this painting here. While many stylistic features in Tay's early works of the 60s may be traced to Cheong Soo Pieng, Tay eventually forged his own path with his progressively stylized pictorial schemas, developing his signature form of landscapes and buffaloes that exude an almost spiritual quality. In this painting, the two human figures almost seem to be floating ethereally on a still lake. The cubist arrangement of the Kelong is a clever mirroring of the distor...