Your Status: Logged out Log in

artist research into Brendan neiland

Member rating: No Rating | Words: 1229 | Submitted: Wed Mar 26 2008

Page Preview
Preview
Previous 1 of 4 Next

On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:

Brendan Neiland Central city Changing times 2005 2006 Oil on canvas Oil on canvas Highlight 2004 Oil on canvas First impressions: When I first look at Neiland's works, I see a flurry of bold colours merging into each other, yet at closer inspection I realise they are abstract reflections in the windows of modern buildings and skyscrapers. These works make me think about what its like to drop an object in a puddle as there is a similar principle in respect to the wavy - rippled like reflections created. I believe these works where made relatively quickly; this is because the paintings are well structured with an almost realistic effect to them suggesting time has been taken to achieve this photo like quality. These reflections have a rather loose swishy quality to them - they have no specific shape and so these aspects of Neiland's paintings may have been done quite quickly to achieve that loose nature...

To see the full version of this document, and 143,656 others

Register Now