The document lists various artists and artworks including Artemesia Gentileschi's "Judith Decapitating Holofernes" from 1620, Giovanni Paolo Pannini's "Scalinata della Trinita dei Mon" from 1756-1758, Agnes Martin's "Wood I" from 1963, Caspar David Friedrich's "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" from 1817-1818, Sue Coe's "Pool Hall" from 1985, Vincent Van Gogh's "Tree with Ivy in the Asylum" from 1889, and works by Kathe Kollwitz, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Giovanni Domenico
Value Contrast: Refers to the relationship between areas of dark and light. -Low-Value Contrast: The contrast between two adjoining areas is slight -Scientists have found that the human eye can perceive up to 40 variations in value
Low-Value Contrast
High-Value Contrast
Value Pattern: The arrangement and the amount of variation in light and dark, independent of the colors used.When value contrast is minimized and all the values are within a limited range with only small variation… HIGH KEY=Composition dominated by lights LOW KEY=Composition dominated by darksHere LOW KEY…dominated by darks, dramatic, theatrical. Works with subject matter…typical of Baroque artists
HIGH KEY COMPOSITION…few contrasting dark areas
LOW KEY COMPOSITION…meditative, very calm
Value Used to suggest volume or spaceChiaroscuro: During the Renaissance, this term was coined to describe the artistic device of using light and dark to imply depth and volume in a painting or drawing. -Combination of the two Italian words “chiaro”, meaning light, and “scuro”, the word for dark. -Characterized by strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition
Film Noir…uses subtle light to create dramatic emphasis
Actual depiction of Space with Atmospheric Perspective
Uses values to create “zones” of light and dark…creates a literal space of the pool hall but also the psychological space of the figures within the painting