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Mohammed Harahap is an Indonesian figurative painter born in Jakarta in 1951 and connected to Medan, Sumatra. His work draws heavily from Balinese ceremony, music and the human figure. He is particularly known for combining flattened forms, expressive black linework and richly textured metallic surfaces. In Song of Bali, Harahap presents music not simply as a performance, but as a shared social and ceremonial language. The two musicians lean toward one another while their hands, bodies and instruments overlap, turning the painting into a study of connection, rhythm and cultural memory. The gold and weathered textures lend the scene the timeless quality of a mural or preserved fragment of ritual life.