Like the Impressionists, Signac loved misty atmosphere.
One of the most original printmakers of the period, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) created lyrical etchings that were charged with the misty atmosphere of Venice.
Ms. Bell's early paintings are what you might call Tonalist, an artistic style popular in America from the 1880s onward in which artists painted the landscape with an emphasis on mood, misty atmosphere and shadow.
He painted sumptuous street scenes of strolling citizens at twilight, essentially tonal, with tinted, misty atmospheres, often generating pleasant tensions between fleeing perspective and brushy surfaces.
Over all, though, the shiny hyper-reality robs Middle-earth of some of its misty, archaic atmosphere, turning it into a gaudy high-definition tourist attraction.
Alfonso Cuaron took over for "The Prisoner of Azkaban" (2004) and conjured up the misty, magical atmosphere that Columbus's films had lacked.
"The shiny hyper-reality robs Middle-earth of some of its misty, archaic atmosphere, turning it into a gaudy high-definition tourist attraction," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in December.
These curious usages create a mystical, misty, and magnifying atmosphere calculated powerfully to impress the masses with a sense of sublimity.
If "Obscura" supplied nearly constant surprise, this music is frustratingly consistent in its overall dark, dense, misty color and atmosphere, even through its frequent changes in energy and tempo, its rhythmic breakdowns and dissonant harmonies between the two guitarists.
It's remarkable how vital those visions of the past remain at the living history museum at Mystic Seaport, which recreates -- in its architecture, exhibitions, original clipper ships and restored historic vessels -- the misty and mystical atmosphere of a 19th-century coastal New England village.
He also excels in rendering misty or smoke-laden atmosphere.
