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Francesco Lojacono

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Henryk Siemiradzki

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Oscar Droege

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Josef Stoitzner (1884 -1951)

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Figured I’d put all of these together as a little value structure study since I had them all open in Photoshop separately anyhow. Top to bottom: Trina Schart Hyman (Snow White), Edmund Dulac x2, J. M. W. Turner.

All of these read well in black & white because the value structures are meaningful and pleasing (or as Nathan Fowkes puts it, there’s a “simple value statement”). But I included the bottom Dulac & Turner as examples where a great deal of the effect of the final piece comes from subtle variations in temperature, rather than value. While the areas of strongest value contrast still fall in the areas of interest you’d expect (Dulac: the spirit’s face & the turret against the trees; Turner: the short tower & the boat), there is so much charm and interest lost in the B&W versions. For Turner, it seems as if his trademark shimmering style derives almost more from the subtle warm/cool color variations than necessarily from his style of paint application: the B&W version looks almost generic, while the color is Definitely Turner. For Dulac (and I’ve started noticing this about a lot of his pieces), there are huge areas of middle values that are quite busy with texture and detail. I would argue that of these four pieces, his B&W version is the least impactful because of those predominating middle values. Even the tiny amount of value variation in the color original (the lavenderish sky, the spirit’s yellow-greenish mantle) adds so much more interest, elegance and visual harmony.

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