Known for his ground-breaking sense of lyricism, West Sumatran born artist Zaini (1926-1977) created landscape paintings with non-naturalistic colours that were both subtle and inventive. Deeply embedded in the Jakarta and Yogyakarta artistic networks, he was appointed to lead the Institut Kesenian Jakarta (Jakarta Art Institute) in the 1970s, alongside his contemporaries Oesman Effendi and Nashar.