1. James B Read Portrait of a Boy
The artist also used chiaroscuro to establish a light source by using shadows falling away to the background from the boy himself on the wood planks and on the bench. ... Then you have the bright pink and red tones of the roses in the field, which seem to be noticeable even more when placed among the bright green of the leaves and bushes they lay in. ... Even the shadows themselves seem to taper off as they fall behind the subject, painted in a perceived reflected color of his jacket. ...
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