Francoise Nielly is a
French knife painter who is famous for painting vibrant and colourful close up
portraits of people such as Barack Obama. She studies fine arts and art deco
preparation. As well as being a photographer, she has also been in the
advertising business for the last 15 years as an illustrator. Her painting is
expressive and has a fascinating vital energy to it.
Her fluorescent
strokes are probably her most dramatic creations with oils and canvas. Her
impressive work beats with gust projecting movement, energy and rapturous
emotions.
Nielly is fairly similar to Mithouard as they both use an
energetic colour palette to produce their work and they mostly do figure and
portrait work. Oil and knife combine sculpt her
images from a material that is, at the same time, biting and incisive, charnel
and sensual. Whether she paints the human body or portraits, the artist takes a
risk; her painting is sexual, her colours free, exuberant, surprising, even
explosive, the cut of her knife incisive, her colour pallet dazzling.
As a fan of Niellys work, I like the fact most of the
time she doesn’t use realistic colours such as fleshy tones as shown above in
the right image. Possibly why I am drawn to this French artist as I thoroughly enjoy
mixing it up and throwing in complementing colours to make it more exciting.
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