This is probably one of the coolest paintings that I've seen in a while. It's by Martina Nehrling, and I think it's awesome. It looks as though a paint store is in the act of throwing up, but it works. Her strokes are minimal and singular, but there are so many colors that even this simple abstract shape is made interesting. At that, because of the multitude of brush strokes, she achieves a sort of unity through the repetition, despite the fact that each stroke is different. The colors in this as well are very true feeling -- there aren't any muddled down colors or desaturated hues, and Nehrling obviously paid special attention to making sure that this unbalanced shape achieved balance through her use of color. It seems as though this painting could be Nehrling's test-strokes for color she would later apply to a different painting, but no... this is it. I feel like she's trying to express the weighty accumulation of individual thoughts and ideas that cross through our minds daily. In doing so, she employs a wide range of colors, but uses them all with the same consideration, perhaps to show that all these rambling thoughts are not so much great ideas, but just a mesh of chatter. As the clump hangs, it makes me think that all of this "chatter" is superfluous -- unnecessary and cumbersome to the point of annoyance... yet it's all so pretty anyway.
