Light And Painting

Light is an illusory thing, which can be perceived by life, and without it we can’t live. The light does exist to us even though it can’t be touched. It is the same in paintings, and it can’t be erased among all the key elements in paintings. Different civilizations of human beings have different understanding of light, and illustrate the importance of light in daily life. The light builds the different art world of the artists, contacting the artist’s true and real experience with works, to let us stroll through in art field as sympathetic visage. The application of light in painting has been developed from the only usage of forming shape through light and shade to other possibilities. Body can also be dissolved by the light to achieve the development direction of a pure picture language. The application of light in painting certainly obtains other achievements with the development of art history.Among the performance elements of painting, the light is a very important one, especially in the western painting system with a rigorous attitude of paying a lot attention to practice and science. Our eyes can feel the light, and we know the change of time and space also can rely on the perception of eyes, which is the convenience it takes to us. To analyze the light from the factor of human inner feeling of emotions, the feeling it takes to us is of positive significance. Both the need in life and the need of body and mind can be inseparable from it. The light is so closely linked to our life experience, affecting our mood directly. So the light used in the painting of the artist also shows the artist’s mood, enhancing the artistic appeal and the more appropriate intention expression of the painting.Light has a lot of types, the different usages or the same light in different artists’ hands and paintings will have different forms of artistic presentation, which is distinguished by the different feelings and interpretations of artists to the light. Based on the description of some different treatment to light in the paintings and the feelings they take to us, the article is to inspire artists’ different discovery and understanding of the light, better to bring out creative breakthrough and unique way of thinking.