Unlike most luminescent organisms, M. polygramma has a diurnal rhythm of luminescence intensity, and has rises and falls of light intensity as high as 35 percent.
A fall of light on a face, a spill of flowers in a vase, embroidery thick on a gown were acceptable miracles in art.
There are brick walls and pitched roofs in the manner of houses all over Surrey, but without ornament, relying instead on proportion, placement, the fall of light and outbreaks of glazed tiles by the front doors to achieve its effects.
The chemical preparations, the fall of light on drapery, the expressions on the models' faces and the mysteries of photographic plates and darkrooms take on an almost sacramental intensity.
I believe we have to get away from the idea of minimalism as a style and instead understand it as a way of thinking about space: its proportions, its surfaces, and the fall of light.
He depended on editors and idea men for many of his cartoons, but there was a powerful fall of light and shadow in everything he did, including his breathtaking covers.
Golding's knowledge of Renaissance painting, especially the great Venetians and particularly their rendering of the fall of light on to bodies, the way it breaks up outlines and dissolves form and mass, informed his own work as he moved out of figuration and into abstract canvases in which light was the subject.
It should be said that images incised on metal surfaces can be hard to see, and you have to move around in front of the plates at the Drawing Center to catch the right fall of light on what is, in essence, a form of drawing as low relief.
Soon the Coliseum will be just a memory, and in its place will arise a building that promises to visually realign Columbus Circle, to reconnect the circle to the geometric street grid, to Broadway's axial disturbance, and to the fall of light from the western sky.
"Is there anyone else in American painting who makes the fall of light that important and central to a sense of American isolation and what used to be a sense of quiet in American life?" Still, Mr. Adams stopped short of calling his connection to Hopper one of influence: "As I'm sure you know, establishing influence is one of the classical conundrums for art scholars.
