13. Van Eyck
The Arnolfini Marriage
[1670]
Principal of lighting 3-point
lighting
Key – Direction, depth, volume
And intensity of brightness
Fill - contrast – light to dark
Quality – soft hard
Back light
14. Van Eyck
The Arnolfini Marriage
[1670]
Principal of lighting 3-point
lighting
Key – Direction, depth, volume
And intensity of brightness
Fill - contrast – light to dark
Quality – soft hard
Back light
Optical realism
20. “ The painting is remarkable for it’s
time…for the use of light to evoke space
in an interior, for "its utterly convincing
depiction of a room, as well of the
people who inhabit it"
Van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait 1423
21. Caravaggio
The Calling of Saint Mathew [1600]
“Caravaggio put the "oscuro”
in chiaroscuro”
Supper at Emmaus [1601]
22. Rembrandt
“Rembrandt expressed an inner
knowledge. The image one sees in
the mirror…is not ideal or
mythical….it shows the effects of
age, disease, disappointment,
frustration, self-less, covetousness,
weak-ness. These come out quite as
clearly as health, joy, and
confidence.”
Rembrandt Self portrait at 63 [1669]
23. Vermeer
Detail A girl with Pearl Earing [1665]
A woman standing at a virginal [1670]
“Pictorial space achieved through
lighting had become both optical
and emotional”
27. Senso 1954 Dir Visconti DP GR Aldo
Moving light
motivated from
the window
28. A Bout de Souffle - Breathless [1960] Dir Godard DP Coutard
Camera and
actors move
around the
room – shooting
into the light or
with the light.
Use of bounce
light
Issues of contra-
jour
29. Eye-light and
soul
Use of shadow
Modeling with
or against the
light
Light is
‘wrapped’
around his face
and ‘feathered’
across for the cu
Fanny and Alexander - [1982] Dir Bergman DP Nykvist
30. The Conformist - [1979] Dir Bertolucci DP Storaro
Moving light
Through the
window
Plato’s cave
Use of
Chiaroscuro,
silhouette
Shooting
against the light