The phrase
"value contrast" refers to the difference in lightness or darkness between different elements in a composition. It helps create depth, highlight important areas, and add visual interest.
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Walden writes, «By selecting a yellow to violet complement for the field (the largest shape) of each painting, each painting or visual step starts out with
high value contrasts and proceeds with inexact gradations found intuitively and experimentally in the act of painting.»
We are indebted to Paul Pretzel's paper on «Whales and Polar Bears» for this conception of the
radical value contrast between the two cultures.
My wardrobe choices are more
medium value contrast than yours (think grey and beige instead of black), with just a bit more color added, but you have directed me to many items which are now beloved and in my closet.
Moreover, both worked with their canvases laid horizontally on a table or pair of sawhorses, painstakingly working towards an exquisitely refined perceptual effect based
on value contrast (Baer) or its suppression (Reinhardt).
In the new white paintings on view, Lee returns to the reductive palette of his ballpoint works and the paintings use a minimum of color and feature
strong value contrasts.
Chowdhury often uses intense color and
value contrasts as immersive tools, and treats paintings as semi-architectural objects, moving them away from walls to define new spaces within spaces.
These works are larger than most of In - Hyung's paintings and the way she
maximizes value contrasts and the interplay of tangled black line with ineffable form and a few select colors further enhances each painting's impact.
My response was simple — Greenberg had discovered for himself a formalist thread that, by recognizing the suppression
of value contrast, created a new kind of openness in the late Monets.
By selecting a yellow to violet complement for the field (the largest shape) of each painting, each painting or visual step starts out with
high value contrasts and proceeds with inexact gradations found intuitively and experimentally in the act of painting.
These values he contrasts with other beliefs and values with which it is readily apparent he is himself in greater accord: «a belief that government is sometimes a positive good, and that it should be cosmopolitan, expert, authoritative, efficient, confidential, articulated in its parts, progressive, elite, mechanical, duties - oriented, secular, regulatory, and delegative, with a division of labor.»
I would definitely recommend doing 7 Steps as it has made a huge difference to my wardrobe and I now enjoy wearing clothes that really suit my colouring, shape, colour &
value contrast, lifestyle and personal style.
As their preconceptions give way to experience, they gradually learn to
value their contrasting and complementing strengths and skills as they face the formidable task of keeping body and...
It is tonality, or
value contrast, that I am more interested in — what I can find between.0 and.1.
This visual effect as explained by Noland is «a simple fact, when you move from one color space to another color space, that if there's
a value contrast you get a strong optical illusion.»