Where Does Lighting Come From? John Atkinson Grimshaw

 John Atkinson Grimshaw, “The Gossips, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight” (1880)

"... The lighting comes from different sources: from the moon, through a hole in the clouds, from the glow of a gas lamp and, in the distance, from a window without curtains. Furthermore, the light of the moon reflects both on the water to the left of the painting and on the muddy puddles in the foreground. These different sources of light, together with the leafless trees, help to create a mysterious and romantic play of shadows in the painting..."

"John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836- 1893) is considered, today, one of the great painters of the Victorian era and one of the best and most skilled nocturnal and landscape artists of all time. His love for realism was born from a passion for photography. Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style, he created landscapes with accurate light and color, vivid detail and realism. His works often represent, in various seasons and with different climatic situations, city streets, suburban streets and the docks of London, Hull, Liverpool and Glasgow.

In his paintings with a poetic moonlight, with vague atmospheres, from the misty, humid and dark streets, lonely houses, luminous shop windows, gas lights, puddles, solitary figures, still or moving, emerge in contemplation of the landscape."

Edward Hopper and Windows...Outside Looking In and Inside Looking Out

 Sally Grant, BBC.com, June 2021:

"...Windows are pervasive in his oeuvre. He was fascinated by architecture, and he depicted buildings, and their rows of apertures, as self-standing subjects. He also painted close-up window views, from both the outside looking in, and the inside looking out. Of the former category, Nighthawks (1942) is perhaps the most famous example. Of the latter, Morning Sun of 1952 exemplifies the artist's love of light and of the city, most particularly New York..."

Morning Sun , 1952

 Nighthawks, 1942

Did painting originate from copying a shadow?

Roberto Casati and Patrick Cavanagh, "The Visual World of Shadows":

“…Shadows are a ubiquitous feature of our visual environment, in which so many objects block the light that is our principal source of information. Given their perturbation of light, and their high contrast, shadows are a massive problem for vision which must distinguish them from full-blown objects or material features of objects. Despite their nuisance, shadows are also an invaluable resource as their dance with light and their visibility can signal objects’ presence, location, shape, and size, among other properties. We know that much of the information from shadows is processed automatically and then may be accessed consciously, on demand, as it were. What is intriguing is that once used, shadows end up in the visual dustbin—they are hardly noticed or remembered—from where they can be retrieved only in certain special circumstances. Try to recall the shadows in the room you just left. Now go back there and look at all of them; you will see that most of them went unnoticed.

Because of the realism they offer and because of their visual and conceptual complexity, shadows have long fascinated visual artists: painters, graphic designers, movie makers…”

 

Gyges of Lydia inventing the art of drawing by tracing his shadow, 1573 as painted by Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574)

"...In Vasari’s The Origins of Painting, the light source is in a position such that it could not possibly cast the shadow of the painter’s profile on the wall. Actually, no light source is positioned anywhere in the scene that can possibly cast that very shadow, as the painter’s profile exactly matches the shadow’s outline. (Sure enough, the real shadow from that position would have been a poor portrait of the painter.) Observe that the painter’s face is in the shade, which means that his profile is definitely not casting his shadow as depicted. Nevertheless, the shadow seems appropriate at first glance..."

हेमेन मजूमदार आणि अमित मैत्रा, सोमभू मित्रा यांच्या घागर असलेल्या अजरामर कलाकृती...Women With Water pots

 

जागते रहो , १९५६ मध्ये नर्गिस 

हेमेन मजूमदार (१८९४-१९४८)

Fascinating Art of Gil Elvgren, Best known for his Pin-up Paintings

 

Wait... Oh No! Did You Hear That Noise? It's My Husband!, 1948

 

अपुरा, नित्य नवा राहिलेला मोरगावचा नंदी...Wabi sabi

 Maria Popova writes:

"Wabi sabi is a beautiful Japanese concept that has no direct translation in English. Both an aesthetic and a worldview, it connotes a way of living that finds beauty in imperfection and accepts the natural cycle of growth and decay..."

द ग गोडसे मोरगावच्या अष्टविनायका समोरच्या अपूर्ण नंदी बद्दल पृष्ठ १११-११२ वर, त्यांच्या 'समन्दे तलाश', १९८१ पुस्तकात लिहतात:

What is More Dangerous? Salt or Zombie Parents?

Today November 14  is Children's day

Artist: K J Lamb, The Spectator UK, April 2016