Visual Elements Value Value relative lightness and darkness

Visual Elements Value

Value relative lightness and darkness of surfaces ranges from white through grays to black To suggest the way light reveals form, artists use changes in value.

Dark Medium Light

Chiaroscuro Italian: chiaro - light or clear oscuro – dark or obscure A type of modeling wherein manipulation of light and shade to create the illusion of volume and/or distance on 2 D surface

Italianate Landscape with Travelers (1646). Jan Both.

The Calling of St. Matthew (c. 1597 -98). Caravaggio.

Milkmaid (1658 -60). Johannes Vermeer.

Other modeling techniques hatching - broken hatching cross-hatching stippling

Hatching

Cross-hatching

Stippling

Study of Arms and Hands (c. 1474). Leonardo da Vinci.

Study of the Kneeling Leda (c. 1505 -07). Leonardo da Vinci.

The Virgin and St. Anne with the Christ Child and John the Baptist. Leonardo da Vinci.

Strong and Minimal Value Contrast – the difference between the light and dark areas - strong or minimal Contrast between light and dark gives impact to the work that may be essential to its content.

Sacred Love Versus Profane Love. (c. 1602 -03) Giovanni Baglione.

Oedipus and Sphynx (1808). Ingres.

Juan de Pareja. Diego Velasquez.

Man with the Golden Helmet. Rembrandt.