Dramatic paintings

31/365 A form of art that emphasizes the Greatest Area of Contrast (GAC) is Chiaroscuro, a word I still can’t pronounce correctly to this day. It has a few meanings, but what I’ll be covering is how it describes strong contrasts of light and dark in a composition, whether it be a painting, photograph, or […] To access this post, you must be log in in as a Master Pass member, or please purchase The Master Pass Membership, The Master Pass Package or The Ultimate Package.

Painting of an extremely surprised man, styled after Caravaggio's old master Baroque oil paintings.

Ferdinand Victor Delacroix - The farewell of Romeo and Juliet

Henry Asencio

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Chiaroscuro is the name for a style of art which became quite popular during the Renaissance. As the name origin suggests, it is a method of painting which imparts a sense of very directional light falling on the subject.

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Caravaggio

When famous Realism artists emerged in France after the French Revolution of 1848, they wanted to portray the common man as he was. They went against the idealized paintings of Neoclassical artists and the often overly dramatized paintings of Romantic artists. These two art movements had been dominant during the first half of the 19th century. It went hand in hand with the political situation at the time. #Artworks #paintings #Realism #Realismpaintings