Art Rec: The Test and The Morning Light

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Title: The Test and The Morning Light.
Artist: nero749
Pairing: none
Rating: gen
Warnings: none
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Reccer's comments: What is painting but light? Without light we would be surrounded by darkness, looking at a painting that’s nothing but a canvas filled with black. Without light, everything would be meaningless. Holmes was a Victorian inventor of a powerful generator that was used in a lot of lighthouses as the electricity source to make the beacon light function. The light Sherlock Holmes’s mind sheds on evidence that is nothing but meaningless darkness is equally powerful. One of the reasons the show itself is such a constant source of delight is the very clever lighting of almost every scene. And doesn’t the light just love all those planes and angles of Sherlock’s face it can reflect from?

That’s what the artist has certainly understood very well. Just look at the clever use of light in the dark one. With just a hint of light in both Sherlock’s curls and the coat, she tricks our eye into seeing what we actually can’t in all the blackness. And isn’t that cigarette extra alluring because it’s shimmering so attractively in that light that outlines the, to us, even more alluring curve of Sherlock’s cheekbone.

In contrast in the other painting the light nearly blinds us in its harsh brightness. Yet here she does exactly what the light and the camera do between them with Sherlock’s face in the series. The darkness of the curls and his pupils provide a nice contrast to all the light tones. And I just love the bold strokes in which the sheet is drawn.

Two marvellous examples of light and contrast and very nice to look at to boot.