ATHENS (AP) — Evgenios Spatharis, a Greek master of shadow-puppet theater who sought to preserve the art, died on May 10, days after he was injured in a fall.
Wright is England's answer to Caravaggio, a master of light and shadow and the man behind one of the most celebrated images of science ever created.
Rembrandt, painting in the 17th century, became a master of light and shadow, a technique reflected in his landscapes as well as such portraits as his monumental group portrait now known as Night Watch.
Of far greater consequence was the simultaneous downfall of Ichiro Ozawa, the secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the country's greatest living master of the dark political arts and its shadow shogun.
Alex Toth is the master of black ink shadows.
Arrevad's pictures are inspired by paintings by Old Masters, particularly Rembrandt's use of shadow, and Ruben's relationship between characters and backgrounds.
The Shih ji (Records of the Grand Historian) described him as "tall and a brilliant speaker", who was "fertile in techniques" and a master of esoteric arts, such as shadow play.
Revered as the baroque master of lifelike portraits and light and shadow, the 16th-century painter Caravaggio is now being touted as the first master of photographic technique, two centuries before the formal invention of the camera.
This week offers variations on that theme from two formidable dramatists who have never shied from the shadows: the British master of silence HAROLD PINTER and the all-American misanthrope NEIL LaBUTE.
Ken Jacobs is the master of the projector performance, using a projector or two, shutters and filters to create intricate interplays of shadow and light.
