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Joaquin Sorolla
ALTHOUGH SOROLLA WAS KNOWN mostly for his figure paintings, his work wonderfullly demonstrates to landscape painters a coloristic approach to handling light and shade. His shadows are filled with light and color. Says Charles Sovek in his article "Light and Color, Sorolla Style" (Artist's Magazine, December 1990), "... Sorolla kept reasonably close to the age-old maxim that every object in light should be painted a middle value or above, and every object in shadow should be a middle value or below." Sorolla lowers the range of values, a technique employed by the Impressionists. By keeping shadows in the middle value range, he allows the colors to retain that their natural hue and identity. If a color gets too dark, it begins to reads more as dark less as color. (See The Relationship Between Value and Color) Sorolla also constantly juggles light and cool colors, either making the lights warm and the shadows cool, or making the lights cool and the shadows warm. Find additional sources of Sorolla's work online at artcyclopedia.com
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