art and cinematography
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when you’ve got it rightyou’ll see a
characteristic triangle of light on
the shadowed side of the face
why use it?you use rembrandt lighting when you want the scene to look as natural as possible - as if lit from a window, a lamp, or some other source in the scene
expressionismPreseNting the World from A SubjeCtive persPectiVe, DistoRting it rAdicaLly foR EmotiOnal Effect in oRder To evokE Moods or ideAs
it’s (supposed to be) kind of the opposite of impressionismMonet’s water lilies is a typical example of impressionism
impressionist artists tried to accurately portray changing patterns of light and worked outdoors
urban, crowded settings, often chaotic. perspective is distorted and colours are dictated by feeling rather than realism
Orson wellEs usEd exPressIonisTic tEchniQues In fiLms sUch aS CitizeN kaNe, thE ladY froM shaNghai, & toUch oF evil
pan’s labyrinth has scenes clearly influenced by Francisco goya
guillermo del toro’s
“Saturn devouring his son”
we catch glimpses of other lives“Voyeurism has been an unavoidable condition of urban living and moviegoing, and Hopper’s pictures spy on people in uncurtained rooms.”
we never say what we think
“They are epiphanic moments in someone else’s life, stills from a movie we can't quite remember.”
urban scenes, night shadows
“His 1921 etching Night Shadows looks like a storyboard sketch for a high-angle shot in a Fritz Lang movie”
“Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) was a crucial point where the sinister verticality of Hopper's mansard-roofed house in his first acclaimed painting House by the Railroad (1925), was combined with the unprepossessing horizontality of his numerous paintings of motels.”
oscar winning cinematographer Néstor Almendros Cuyás was clearly influenced by both hopper and Andrew Wyeth
andrew Wyeth “Christina’s world” (1948)
read morequotes in this presentation from philip french’s
article in the observer, 25/04/2004http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2004/apr/25/art