ART 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aerial Perspective, Georges Seurat, Hatching
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Light and color help to create the illusion of space: artists can control the experience of their work through the manipulation of light. These objects are generally less distinct and bluer in color. Value: from light to dark: definitions of relative value, hue, tint, shade. Example a: pat steir"s pink chrysanthemum and night chrysanthemum feature three views of the same flower in stages of abstraction: value and color can evoke emotion. Western culture often associates light with good and darkness with evil. In the eighteenth century, goethe created a color theory linked with moral and religious significance. Example b: definitions chiaroscuro and modeling: paul colin drew figure of a woman on beige paper, indicating shadow with black crayon and light with white crayon, highlights are indicated by white and directly reflect the light source. Example c: leonardo showcased his mastery of the chiaroscuro technique in madonna on the rocks.
