Other contrasts

Other contrasts I noticed between old art and modern was the colours used in new paintings compared to traditional paintings which used dark olive colours and the people always had really pale faces. Now we have more artificial colours available to us in our pallets so that things can be coloured in brighter shapes (link to thing about modern dyes). Lighting also plays a part in the colours, we now have electric lights so things appear brighter, clearer and colours are more intense compared with older paintings where Things were only lit by candles so the shapes would have been more dull and flickery.

(Joseph Wright of derby (Experiment with the Air-Pump, approx. 1768, oil on canvas, Tate Gallery at London) And Bill Murphy (OlimpiaMixed-Media Painting))

The use of light

The use of light has played role in the arts for quite a while. Monet http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/haystacks/

was one painter to look at the use of light in his painting the haystacks where he did several paintings of the same object in different lights causing different colours to give different moods and atmospheres. This was difficult in the 17 hundreds because of the lack of colours