Colour Symbolism in Giotto’s Arena Chapel
Sensory impressions derived from bright colours drew the onlooker from the material to the immaterial, bringing the divine into human life.
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Artful Musings
about Renaissance Art and Digital Art, alone and together
Tim Burton meets Raphael in the Darkness (and the Light)
His suburbia is a blinding pure-colour utopia, brightened with white – unnaturally - without shadow or stain.
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Leonardo's Sfumato
Leonardo once wrote that ‘light and shade should blend without lines or borders in the manner of smoke’.
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The Magic of Surface Detail
The illusion of reality balances the soft and the touchable with the reflective and the gleaming.
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A Constellation of Dots
How to create a representation of the human body which appears convincingly plotted in 3D space?
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