Natee Utarit

The painting is in good condition, as is the canvas. Examination under UV light reveals no indication of retouching. The paint layers are intact.
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"Silent Laughing of Monsters and Silent Laughing of Monsters/Large Scale showed canvas works with selected details from Renaissance paintings, exquisitely rendered, but obscured by a layer of enamel or wood-stain...

Goya's The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters can be interpreted in part as an expression of the artist's struggle between reason and imagination. Natee's work negotiates similar tensions, but his dilemma is a more contemporary one, concerning the validity and value of his artistic practice, and of painting itself. The purported rational ideals of western classicism are constantly played against his own emotional and intuitive responses to the canvas."

NOOR MAHNUN MOHAMED, NATEE UTARIT: RECENT PAINTINGS, EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, VALENTINE WILLIE FINE ART, KUALA LUMPUR, 2003.