The book is an important detail, since it may keep her on the narrow path of virtue.
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| Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, The Expected Ones, 1860 |
The foliage masses create a circular window around the deep space view, and the foliage is lightened up as it goes back into greater distances.
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4 comments:
Would part of the technique of tonal organization in this picture mean for example that he painted the white collar of the man in the shade in a lower tone than it might normally appear, to make sure that it wouldn't stand out too much and disturb the large overall dark shape in that area of the painting?
In a little while whe will stumple over the rock LOL
Haha, one could make a collection of these! Like this
Repin's painting "Preparation for the Examination" (I believe this was his diploma painting), with the iPad :)
Or, another favorite of mine, where Michelangelo lets one of the damned relay the horrors over the cell phone (at least as long as the demon has not hit him on the head with that oar!)
when I saw it from afar, I thought she was walking towards the valley and visually that made more sense....
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