Light
Browse by Light
Browse paintings by the quality of their light — diffuse and shadowless, dramatic and directional, the single flame and the silvered moon. Each kind of light gathers the works that handle it the same way.
Diffuse LightDiffuse light has no single source and casts no hard shadow — the even, sourceless glow of an overcast day or a north-facing studio.41,895 worksDramatic LightDirectional light comes from somewhere, and announces it.17,503 worksOvercastThe grey overcast sky is light without spectacle — soft, shadowless, low in contrast.9,446 worksChiaroscuroChiaroscuro — Italian for light-dark — models form through the contest of the two.1,422 worksCandlelightTo paint by a single flame is to accept that most of the world stays dark.1,257 works
