Alors que la gravure sur bois est passée de mode depuis la Renaissance, certains artistes du XVIIIe siècle la font revivre en innovant dans son usage. C’est le cas d’un obscur graveur anglais, John Baptist Jackson, qui produit à Venise des estampes représentant de célèbres peintures, grâce à la superposition de plusieurs planches afin de former un ...
This article aims at studying the poetics of light and darkness in Millhauser’s short stories “Cathay” and “The Room in the Attic”: in the first, the protagonist favors darkness and imagination over light and revelation and in the second, Asian concubines play with what is hidden and what is shown, while the narrator plays with light and darkness. ...
Resumo O artigo propõe uma reflexão acerca da importância do trabalho de direção de fotografia de Walter Carvalho na construção da luz, da sombra e da penumbra, como recursos que trazem camadas de sentido para a narrativa de A erva do rato, de Júlio Bressane. O filme é uma livre adaptação cinematográfica dos contos “Um esqueleto” e “A causa secreta...
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To compose art, artists rely on a set of sensory evaluations performed fluently by the brain. The outcome of these evaluations, which we call neuroaesthetic variables, helps to compose art with high aesthetic value. In this study, we probed whether these variables varied across art periods despite relatively unvaried neural function. We measured se...
Personal preference to darkmospheres , light corners & generally high contrasted views and spaces, as well as a curiosity of investigating other opinions & responses, were the driving force for conducting this survey. Regarding my subjective perception and since, after all, the matter of taste and subjectivity is quite strong in this kind of inves...
I am a practising classical soprano. After more than 20 years of professional singing, I re-trained my voice according to principles of the old Italian school of singing. In this essay, I examine the origins and priciples of bel canto, with special focus on appoggio and chiaroscuro, two key ingredients in the bel cantao tradition. I explore the rel...
