Painting work by Nicholas Bodde consists of mixed media on aluminum panel or paints on paper. It is composed of colored horizontal lines in different heights, which makes a harmonized structure. The work doesn't show a specific image but abundant colors and expression of paints themselves provide abstract experience in depth to the audience.
People's eyes and heads unconsciously follow the horizontal lines from left to right so that they can 'read' lines and colors on painting as reading a book. A progress of composition makes rich visual images.
Bodde's work gives a different feeling in terms of a distance of viewing. When seeing in a long distance, the work looks like a structural-geometry construction, but in the opposite case, people can notice that the artist's main purpose is drawing, not structure or building. His work with researching use and value of color in a fixed structure suggests variety and more strictness for his art world.

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© Nicholas Bodde, Galllery Yeh