He continues using a 'wet on wet' technique to form the ephemeral layers of clouds and the watery reflections in the lake. This creates an impression of aerial perspective as the tones of the colors appear to fade into the distant landscape. He then builds up the shapes of the mountains with washes in different tones of blue, more intense in the foreground becoming paler in the background. First Nolde soaks his paper, in this case vellum, with water. It is painted more from memory than from observation using the natural fluidity of watercolor to mirror the changing mood of the landscape. 'Lake Lucerne' by Emile Nolde is a classic example of an expressionist painting technique. Expressionist painting was more about using color and the physical qualities of a medium to express your feelings about the subject rather than simply describing it in a naturalistic fashion. The painting technique that Balla employed was derived from Pointillism, a more scientific approach to the analysis of color, and as such forms the perfect marriage between the subject and its execution.ĭramatic color combined with a vigorous painting technique are the key elements of Expressionism in art. The light even outshines nature herself as the corona of the crescent moon struggles to compete with its incandescence. It is a Futurist celebration of the power of technology as the symbol of the new age. He painted 'Street Light' at the time when electric lighting was first introduced to the streets of Rome. Its radiant glow dissolves in concentric waves, each of which diminish in intensity and change color to suggest the different wavelengths of the spectrum.īalla was an Italian Futurist who revered the modernity of urban life. At its center, the bulb burns with a white heat in the darkness of the night. 'Street Light' by Giacomo Balla is a poetic impression that represents the physical properties of light. One wavelength will stimulate our perception of red, another orange, another yellow and so on through all the colors of the spectrum. Color is the sensation that is stimulated in our brain by different wavelengths of light.
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