1949
unspecified
From the collection of Baia Mare Artistic Centre County Art Museum
Pictorul și modelul is a 1949 unspecified by János Thorma, a Realism work, held at Baia Mare Artistic Centre County Art Museum.
This painting shows a person lying down in bright light, their body mostly bare except for a dark cloth draped over one arm. The background is dark and blurry, with just a hint of another figure in the corner. The skin looks smooth and pale, while the lighting makes one side glow. The artist used strong contrasts between light and shadow to shape the body. This makes the figure stand out sharply against the dark background. Next, look up *chiaroscuro* to see how this technique works in other paintings.
János Thorma (24 April 1870 – 5 December 1937) was a Hungarian painter. A representative figure of the Nagybánya artists' colony, which started in 1896, in Nagybánya, Austria-Hungary (today Baia Mare, Romania), he moved…
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