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2. Nighthawks (Hopper) - Wikipedia

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   Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban streetscape. The painting has been described as Hopper's best-known work [1] and ...

3. Light painting - Wikipedia

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   Light painting inside an abandoned limestone quarry in France. Light painting, painting with light, light drawing, light art performance photography, or sometimes also freezelight are terms that describe photographic techniques of moving a light source while taking a long-exposure photograph, either to illuminate a subject or space, or to shine light at the camera to 'draw', or by moving the ...

4. Droving into the light - Wikipedia

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   Droving Into the Light, originally titled Into the Light, is a 1921 painting by renowned Australian artist Hans Heysen. The painting was composed over a period of seven years from 1914 to 1921. [ 1 ] It is part of the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth .

5. Light in painting - Wikipedia

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   Port with the disembarkation of Cleopatra in Tarsus (1642), by Claude Lorrain, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Light in painting fulfills several objectives, both plastic and aesthetic: on the one hand, it is a fundamental factor in the technical representation of the work, since its presence determines the vision of the projected image, as it affects certain values such as color, texture and volume ...

6. Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge - Wikipedia

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   This oil on canvas painting is 32 x 23 1/2 inches (81.3 x 59.7 cm). [1] The painting shows a woman sitting on a large red chair in the balconies of the Paris Opéra House. [ 1 ] The figure is seated in front of a massive mirror that is reflecting the theater scene that the woman is experiencing; it is also giving us the view point that the ...

7. Sun in an Empty Room - Wikipedia

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   The work shares elements in common with earlier Hopper paintings, such as Summer Interior (1909), Eleven A.M. (1926), and Room in Brooklyn (1932), but is thought to be a continuation of the themes first explored in his previous work, Rooms by the Sea (1951), [α] which also shows an empty room with light coming in. [7] While working on the ...