Art Rec: The Test and The Morning Light

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful introduction to two truly exceptional works! Your musings on light and darkness served as a compelling introduction to the art. Not being an artist myself it's not something I really think about. I just kind of take the way everything looks for granted. ;)

And the art itself is truly stunning. Thank you.

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

Yes, she's very good, isn't she?

Just look at the light in your icon. Framing Sherlock in profile like that and lighting him from the front they've managed to give the shot a very 19th-century feel. So here they're using light to cast him as some Byronic hero. The show is all carefully crafted images like that, imho.

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

Fascinating! I used a "frost" effect on this icon to emphasize the white light surrounding Sherlock and in his breath (because I thought it looked cool--LOL) but I was only bringing out what was already there. You're right, the framing and the light is saying quite a bit about Sherlock here!

That's not the only time they've done this, either.

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

You know, I read this scene completely different from the Belarus one.
This is Sherlock in the restaurant toilet speaking to Sebastian, right?
In that scene what strikes me the most, through the aid of the light and all the reflections in the mirror is Sherlock's vulnerability, as opposed to the hero profile in Belarus. The lightning of his face is much warmer here than the cool hues they used in Belarus, which you so wonderfully enhanced with your frost effect.

[reixilu.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I can't come up with a coherent comment, but those are some bloody gorgeous pictures! Thanks for reccing, nero749 is amazing :D

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

She is indeed! So many outstanding paintings.