Light & Shadow

Learn how Rembrandt used light and dark (chiaroscuro) to focus attention and create mood.

Explore how autumn light, color, and shadow can make a place feel calm or stir other feelings.

Study Sargent's confident, "bravura" brushwork and how it creates a sense of life and movement.

In other words, Ruysch created bizarre ecologies where apple blossoms and orange lilies could bloom in concert.

Compositional framing is a technique in art that uses elements within the artwork to create a "frame" around a focal point, guiding the viewer's eye and emphasizing the subject

Feel, before naming, how light direction changes the mood of a portrait.