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  2. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    There are three properties of color: hue, brightness or chroma, and value. Hue is the name of a color (red, yellow, and blue, etc.). Brightness and chroma refer to the intensity and strength of the color. A high chroma color is more pure and less greyed than a low chroma color. The lightness or darkness to a color is the value.

  3. Elements of art - Wikipedia

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    Color is an element consisting of hues, of which there are three properties: hue, chroma or intensity, and value. [3] Color is present when light strikes an object and is reflected back into the eye, a reaction to a hue arising in the optic nerve. [6] The first of the properties is hue, which is the distinguishable color, like red, blue or ...

  4. Low key - Wikipedia

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    Low key oil painting. Low key as a term used in describing paintings or photographs is related to but not the same as low-key lighting in cinema or photography. [1] A photographic image, painting or movie can be defined as "low-keyly" if its dominant values are black, dark brown or dark blue.

  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 like, 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 ...

  6. Tint, shade and tone - Wikipedia

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    This moves the mixed color toward a neutral color—a gray or near-black. Lights are made brighter or dimmer by adjusting their brightness, i.e., energy level; in painting, lightness is adjusted through mixture with white, black, or a color's complement. The Color Triangle depicting tint, shade, and tone was proposed in 1937 by Faber Birren. [4]

  7. Is Your Thomas Kinkade Painting About to Increase in Value? - AOL

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    (The owner of the painting, which was being sold on consignment, called the gallery after the news broke to ask for the price to be raised.) "Other galleries across the country that specialize in ...

  8. Blend modes - Wikipedia

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    The Linear Burn mode sums the value in the two layers and subtracts 1. This is the same as inverting each layer, adding them together (as in Linear Dodge), and then inverting the result. Blending with white leaves the image unchanged. Vivid Light: this blend mode combines Color Dodge and Color Burn (rescaled so that neutral colors become middle ...

  9. Local color (visual art) - Wikipedia

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    In painting, local color is the color of an object when seen under flat white light with no adjustment for form shadow or colors of light or secondary light sources. An example would be the assumption that an apple is "red" when it is actually dependent on the color of the light hitting it, color of objects around it, glossiness, and variations within the colors on the surface of the apple itself.