Light - Concept and Feeling in Art
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“Light” Concept and Color Technique Glenn Hirsch
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Transcript of Light - Concept and Feeling in Art
“Light”
Concept and
Color Technique
Glenn Hirsch
Light is emotion
Francis Picabia
Melissa Miller
Fred Martin
Reflected Light
Light comes from the sky and the ground
John Singer Sargent "Setting Out to Fish" 1888
Back Light
What captivates us about the woman?
The backlighting on her hat, and the veiled shadow across her eyes.
Vermeer
Vermeer’s cat -
Notice the backlighting around the head and chest.
Value
(contrast)
She is bathed in light
Can you imagine this in black and white?
Degas
“value’ = the black-and-white of the color
Black and white is the
“value” of the color
theatrical chiaroscuro light
Chiaroscuro Light (the object emerges from deep shadow
Chiaroscuro “Theatrical” light
spotlight
cast shadows
glow from metallic reflections
Theatrical ‘chiaroscuro’ light Caravaggio “The Calling of St Matthew“ 1602
Rembrandt and Caravaggio pioneered this kind of dramatic, ‘chiaroscuro’ light.
RembrandtA Woman Bathing In A Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels) 1654
Dramatic ‘chiaroscuro’ light used in art down through the ages.
“The End” (1897) Kathe Kollwitz
Early filmmakers evolved their vision out this tradition of theatrical light.
Gerhard Lamprecht, 1921
The language of dramatic light was transplanted to Hollywood in the 1930’s as film noire.
Dramatic light
just a man in a room.
What if the man wasn't there, would the feeling be the same?
Richard Diebenkornbrush and ink on paper
Glowing Light
Glowing, mystical, supernatural light –
the light isn't falling on the flower, the light is coming from it.
It is the source of the light.
Georgia O'Keefe
Supernatural light, glowing from the object
This is also a long tradition in Western art.
Matthias Grünewald Isenheim Altarpiece 1615
Glenn Hirsch, Second Coming of the Genome, 60x72
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" by Robert Wise
Monochromatic Light
Monochromatic color schemes
enhance
a particular mood
Francis Picabia
What is the ‘true’ color of anything, anyway?
What’s the ‘true color’ of the house?
Claude Monet painted ‘white marble’ on the Rouen Cathedral in different times of day
The color of anything depends on the light.
Color Theory
The contrast of warm and cool versions of each color create
the illusion of “light”
warm and cool versions of each color
Chromatic scale
• Light to dark• Bright to dull• Warm to cool
Chromatic scale
Georgia O’Keeffe
R. B. Kitaj
