Dmitri Wright Fine Art Facebook Dmitris Reflections on Impressionism Capturing Light Impressionist painters capture the illusion of light in their paintings by the dynamic use of color. This is achieved by use of brilliant colors juxtaposed in simultaneous contrast which optically mix in the eye of the viewer at a distance. The idea of Capturing Light is supported by science for light is composed of color. Light is a color spectrum of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Accordingly color and light are one to the impressionist.The application of color as light and light as color, which are interchangeable ideas. As the sun moves across the sky from dawn to dusk the light changes. An Impressionist plein air artist understands that there is a two and a half hour window before there is a significant change in the light around them and on their subject matter. From this understanding impressionists are keen to these shifts in light, or one may say shifts of color. Shift in color and light may appear to be a dichotomy, but they are one and the same. They are the source material for impressionist to express their passion on the way things change in the light and the way one’s feel about color. What is interesting about impressionism is its embrace of both representation - a form of realism, and abstraction - a concept of idea. Impressionism gathers in both the real and the abstract through the use of color to complete the idea in recognizable form to communicate their ideas, all of which is founded on the effect of light on one’s perception and sensibilities.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:15:37 +0000
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