Mastering light and shadow is a fundamental skill that can elevate the quality of photographs, adding depth, drama, and emotion to your images. Aspiring photographers often find that understanding ...

It’s light and space encapsulated in this rough object.” To Gagnon, the element of chance is an essential ingredient in all of his creations. Uncertainty is part of his methodology.

In the university town of Leiden, The Netherlands, 350 years ago this week, a prosperous miller and his wife celebrated the birth of a son destined to tower over the painters of the northern ...

At Marion Art Center, ‘Illuminations’ plays with shadow and light Tamalin Baumgarten’s realist paintings and Meredith Leich’s videos and photographs invite the viewer to marvel at the ...

Left: shadow paths from the sphinxes’ arch showing alignments with features like the Caryatids’ beam and burial cist Credit: Nexus Network Journal (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s00004-025-00817-z ...

But she doesn’t stop there. Light and shadow, in her production, lead naturally to a vocabulary of cinematic Expressionism (in Zhou and Forest Entsminger’s scenic design) and puppetry (by Nick ...