Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. “Light”
Concept
and
Color Technique
Glenn Hirsch

2. Light is emotion

3. Francis Picabia

4. Monet

5. Berthe
Morisot

6. Maurice de Vlaminck

7. Alexei Jawlensky

8. Melissa Miller

9. Fred Martin

10. Reflected Light

11. Light comes from the sky and the ground
John Singer Sargent "Setting Out to Fish" 1888

12. Back Light

13. What captivates us
about the woman?
The backlighting on her
hat, and the veiled
shadow across her eyes.
Vermeer

14. Vermeer’s cat -
Notice the backlighting
around the head and
chest.

15. Value
(contrast)

16. She is bathed in light
Can you imagine this in
black and white?
Degas

17. “value’ = the black-and-white
of the color

18. Black and white is the
“value” of the color

19. theatrical chiaroscuro light

20. Chiaroscuro Light (the
object emerges from
deep shadow

21. Chiaroscuro
“Theatrical”
light
spotlight
cast shadows
glow from metallic
reflections

22. Theatrical ‘chiaroscuro’ light
Caravaggio “The Calling of St Matthew“ 1602

23. Rembrandt and
Caravaggio pioneered
this kind of dramatic,
‘chiaroscuro’ light.
Rembrandt
A Woman Bathing In A
Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels)
1654

24. Dramatic ‘chiaroscuro’
light used in art down
through the ages.
“The End” (1897)
Kathe Kollwitz

25. Early filmmakers
evolved their vision out
this tradition of
theatrical light.
Gerhard Lamprecht,
1921

26. The language of dramatic light was transplanted to Hollywood in the 1930’s as film noire.

27. Dramatic light
just a man in a room.
What if the man wasn't
there, would the feeling
be the same?
Richard Diebenkorn
brush and ink on paper

28. Glowing Light

29. Glowing, mystical,
supernatural light –
the light isn't falling on
the flower, the light is
coming from it.
It is the source of the
light.
Georgia O'Keefe

30. Supernatural light,
glowing from the object
This is also a long
tradition in Western art.
Matthias Grünewald
Isenheim Altarpiece 1615

31. Glenn Hirsch, Second Coming of the Genome, 60x72

32. "The Day the Earth Stood Still" by Robert Wise

33. Monochromatic Light

34. Monochromatic color
schemes
enhance
a particular mood

35. Francis Picabia

39. What is the ‘true’ color of
anything, anyway?

40. What’s
the ‘true
color’ of
the
house?

42. Claude Monet painted ‘white marble’ on the Rouen Cathedral in different times of day

43. The color of anything
depends on the light.

44. Color Theory

45. The contrast of warm and cool
versions of each color create
the illusion of “light”

46. warm and cool versions of each color

47. Chromatic scale
• Light to dark
• Bright to dull
• Warm to cool

48. Chromatic scale

49. Georgia O’Keeffe

50. R. B. Kitaj