In the bright sun and
sharp shadows of a southern exposure, romance pits innocent good against obvious evil in high noon adventure.
The intricate webs etched on the Plexiglas surfaces
cast sharp shadows onto their underlying platforms: drawings that don't exist.
Their pure white and dense black ribbons float from wall into mid-air, throwing
sharp shadows onto the gallery walls and alluding to the organic and the mystical, like the artist's gentle transcriptions on canvas.
The sun was strong, the sky blue, and the gnarled Sichuan pepper trees cast
sharp shadows on the pale dirt.
Because the extracellular space is essentially the negative imprint of the space taken up by cells, the technique depicts neurons and glia
as sharp shadows, hence its name: super-resolution shadow imaging, or SUSHI.
The point was for people to be able to tell a difference during actual gameplay, not just look at two identical things and see a
slightly sharper shadow or some extra grass in one image.
The film has some of the greatest black and white images ever filmed, dramatic lighting and
sharp shadows, everything you think of as the noir style, only instead of an urban crime drama, it's used to powerful effect to create a nightmare of a fairy tale.
Here we are arriving at some tiny siding, just a few neat - edged buildings and
their sharp shadows.
With
their sharp shadows, pulpy imagery, explicit sex and random violence, Raymond Pettibon's drawings have been likened to film noir, which preceded them, and Southern California punk rock, which developed parallel to them.
He painted in a brushy manner similar to theirs until the late 1970s, when his style turned crisp, emphasizing bright light and
sharp shadows, and he concentrated on still life themes.
Case in point with the sublime Green Book, which in photographs appears to be «just» a painting, though
the sharp shadow beneath it hints there is more going on than meets the eye.