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Light - Concept and Feeling in Art
This document discusses different lighting techniques used in art, including backlighting, chiaroscuro lighting, dramatic spotlighting, glowing supernatural light sources, monochromatic color schemes, and how light affects the perceived color of objects. Specific artists mentioned include Vermeer, Degas, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, O'Keefe, and Monet. The document also discusses how early filmmakers adapted dramatic lighting techniques from art traditions and how this influenced the development of film noir.
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- 1. “Light” Concept and Color Technique Glenn Hirsch
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- 11. Light comes fromthe sky and the ground John Singer Sargent "Setting Out to Fish" 1888
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- 13. What captivates us about the woman? The backlighting on her hat, and the veiled shadow across her eyes. Vermeer
- 14. Vermeer’s cat - Notice the backlighting around the head and chest.
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- 16. She is bathedin light Can you imagine this in black and white? Degas
- 17. “value’ = theblack-and-white of the color
- 18. Black and whiteis the “value” of the color
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- 20. Chiaroscuro Light (the object emerges from deep shadow
- 21. Chiaroscuro “Theatrical” light spotlight cast shadows glow from metallic reflections
- 22. Theatrical ‘chiaroscuro’ light Caravaggio “The Calling of St Matthew“ 1602
- 23. Rembrandt and Caravaggiopioneered this kind of dramatic, ‘chiaroscuro’ light. Rembrandt A Woman Bathing In A Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels) 1654
- 24. Dramatic ‘chiaroscuro’ lightused in art down through the ages. “The End” (1897) Kathe Kollwitz
- 25. Early filmmakers evolvedtheir vision out this tradition of theatrical light. Gerhard Lamprecht, 1921
- 26. The language ofdramatic light was transplanted to Hollywood in the 1930’s as film noire.
- 27. Dramatic light justa man in a room. What if the man wasn't there, would the feeling be the same? Richard Diebenkorn brush and ink on paper
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- 29. Glowing, mystical, supernaturallight – the light isn't falling on the flower, the light is coming from it. It is the source of the light. Georgia O'Keefe
- 30. Supernatural light, glowingfrom the object This is also a long tradition in Western art. Matthias Grünewald Isenheim Altarpiece 1615
- 31. Glenn Hirsch, SecondComing of the Genome, 60x72
- 32. "The Day theEarth Stood Still" by Robert Wise
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- 34. Monochromatic color schemes enhance a particular mood
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- 39. What is the‘true’ color of anything, anyway?
- 40. What’s the ‘true color’ of the house?
- 42. Claude Monet painted‘white marble’ on the Rouen Cathedral in different times of day
- 43. The color ofanything depends on the light.
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- 45. The contrast ofwarm and cool versions of each color create the illusion of “light”
- 46. warm and coolversions of each color
- 47. Chromatic scale •Light to dark • Bright to dull • Warm to cool
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