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Ivan Aivazovsky was ridiculously good at painting light. It’s hard to believe his canvases aren’t actually illuminated.
(infosec.pub)
I love great painters of light. Especially light on water. Similarly backlit subjects, the way light interacts with the image and impacts what we see while only backlighting.
I havent read much about him but i feel like he really likes triangles, often we see very sharp triangles in water and the general shape of his subjects too. Hence I added an image of the pyramid. You can also notice it in the water and the building and the people. Just a little theory.
Yeah one can imagine a better context for seeing them but the idea is there and definitely if I knew of one of these in a place I'm gonna visit, I'll be sure to check it out.
Although it doesn't look like I'm visiting anywhere soon but still.
Oh and what is the scale btw, how large works are these?