But what infuses a piece with this palpable, if ineffable, feeling? What techniques and tools are used to achieve a desired mood?
An upcoming exhibition at RJD Gallery titled Night and Day—The Art of Mood explores how light, or lack of it, sets the tone of a group of diverse paintings by several of their talented artists.
Will Teather often paints scenes that seem to emerge from the shadows. His piece The Moon Has Lost its Memory is part of the series Lunar Incantations. “I enjoy the mystery of nocturnal scenes and the way nature seems to be watching us,” says Teather.
Teather’s piece was inspired by the play Ernest and Pale Moon. “The play is quite minimal, using physical theatre to signify most props, leaving a lot of room for my later embellishment of the images,” he says, noting that he gave himself a cameo as the Man in the Moon. “I am interested in using text in a way in which it strengthens the narrative whilst still leaving the meaning open.”
Teather spends a lot of time on the lighting of his models and props because it is so crucial to his work. “It changes everything,” he says. “Both the way you feel and the handling of the paint. I think about the mood I want to achieve. Lighter scenes tend to be more illustrative in style, whereas layers of shadow give the chance for things to emerge from the ether.”
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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University exhibits Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych haunts the visual lexicon of 20th century American representational art. Fifty years have passed since Dinnerstein completed the painting in 1974.
A City Perspective
Leslie Gaduzo has always been interIested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings.
Living Legacy
The Butler Institue hosts Allied Artists of America's 110th Annual Juried Exhibition.
Elegant yet Approachable
The second edition of the RTIA Show presents even more art to explore and expanded special programming.
Figuratively Speaking
New York has always been an epicenter of artists on the edge of excellence, pushing the envelope and finding their voices.
JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play
Like many artists, James Ayers' work took a turn during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing the enjoyment his kids took from playing with paint in his studio and exploring their creativity inspired him.
GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food
Gina Minichino started her journey in visual arts because of Charles Schulz. \"He was my earliest influence for drawing and the reason I wanted to be a cartoonist,\" she says.
Island Light
The Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency is held in a sprawling, 100-year-old house on an island off the southern coast of Massachusetts.
Solitary Forms
Hogan Brown has been working with Arcadia Contemporary for two and half years and is excited to be featured in his first solo show at the gallery. He doesn't take for granted the many talented figurative painters Arcadia represents and is thrilled to be among them.
Living the Dream
Counterintuitively, David Gluck was a painter before taking up tattooing little more than a decade ago. While skin is a completely different substrate and ink a far cry from oil paint, the skills must be transferrable to some degree because there is a wait-time of nine months to get an appointment with him.