Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Sidney Nolan


This is a painting of Ned Kelly by Sidney Nolan. Image of Kelly’s helmet has appeared in a series of paintings by Sidney Nolan. Nolan is using simplified forms - the most famous of which is his Ned Kelly painting. Sidney Nolan’s artwork (painting) is painted on hard composition board using a high-grade enamel paint or acrylic or oil paints, with different kind of soft and hard brushes. It was painted on the canvas or some other fabric material, that’s what usually artists use for they paintings. Like in almost all his paintings he uses kind of square people and objects. There are several colours which he has chosen for this work, it is yellow, white, blue, and brown. The landscape is bright and colourful with yellow land and blue sky.


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