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Light art. Light art or the art of light is generally referring to a visual art form in which (physical) light is the main, if not sole medium of creation. Uses of the term differ drastically in incongruence; definitions, if existing, vary in several aspects. Since light is the medium for visual perception, this way all visual art could be ...
From Darkness, the Light ( Hungarian: Borura derü!) or Allegory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( Hungarian: A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia allegóriája) is a monumental painting by Johann Ender in the Art Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. It is also the official symbol of the institution, the main motif ...
László Moholy-Nagy. László Moholy-Nagy ( / məˌhoʊliˈnɒdʒ /; Hungarian: [ˈlaːsloː ˈmoholiˌnɒɟ]; [2] born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration ...
In art, chiaroscuro ( English: / kiˌɑːrəˈsk ( j) ʊəroʊ / kee-AR-ə-SKOOR-oh, -SKURE-, Italian: [ˌkjaroˈskuːro]; lit. 'light-dark') is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of ...
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 ...
Around 830 CE, when Álmos, the future Grand Prince of the Hungarians, was about 10 years old, the seven related tribes ( Jenő, Kér, Keszi, Kürt-Gyarmat, Megyer [ hu], Nyék, and Tarján) formed a confederation in Etelköz, called " Hétmagyar " ( lit. 'Seven Magyars' ). [13] [14] [15] Their leaders, the Seven chieftains of the Magyars ...
Hungarian art. The most characteristic decorative motif is the palmette style as on this sabretache plate. Several Romanesque village churches in Hungary were constructed in rotunda form, as here at Nagytótlak. Hungarian art stems from the period of the conquest of the Carpathian basin by the people of Árpád in the 9th century.
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 ...