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    2. OPTICS AND LUMINOSITY

    Nov 29, 2019 4 minutes

    I understand why many contemporary artists who attend courses at the Norfolk Painting School initially shun the idea of working traditionally. The trouble with old-fashioned painting is, well, it looks so old fashioned.

    In this second part of my series, I’d like you to pause for thought, however, or at least question your assumptions for a moment. While Old Master paintings are the stuff of art history, the ideas and techniques used in them can be as relevant today as they always were. With this in mind, I’d like to focus upon the one concept that you’ll find in almost any Old Master painting: optics. When it comes to painting, optics refers to the ways in which they interact with light. It is the reason that we

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