In this painting, the light is behind the woman on the large creature. The light is solely entered around her. Everyone below her are in the dark. The position of the light makes it seems as if she has descended from heaven in order to defeat some sort of evil on Earth.
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This painting at its core looks to represent good vs evil, and the lighting helps convey that through the use of brightness vs darkness. It also helps that the "good" is coming down from above with light coming down from the sky as well.
ReplyDeleteIn this painting we can see how lighting a person or individual can impact the perception of them. Here the women being lit looks powerful and also angelic, something normally associated with back lighting. The interesting part of this painting is how the other figures around her look so much darker and less powerful in comparison.
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