intensity

Examples of intensity in the following topics:

• Basic Color Vocabulary

  • "Saturation" refers to the intensity of a color, for example the primaries are the most saturated or intense of the colors.

• Oil

  • Oil paint is prized for providing the qualities of richness, intensity and luminosity of color, and it is believed by many to be the most versatile of all the painting mediums.
  • Oil paint is prized for providing the qualities of richness, intensity and luminosity of color, as seen in this work by Abraham Brueghel.

• Foreshortening

  • Mantegna presented both a harrowing study of a strongly foreshortened cadaver and an intensely poignant depiction of a biblical tragedy.

• Masks in the Kalabari Kingdom

  • Central to the festivities is the role of masquerades, in which men wearing elaborate outfits and carved masks dance to the beat of drums and manifest the influence of the water spirits through the quality and intensity of their dancing.

• The Northern Renaissance

  • Finally, by the end of the 16th century, artists such as Karel van Mander and Hendrik Goltzius collected in Haarlem in a brief but intense phase of Northern Mannerism that also spread to Flanders.

• Painting and Other Forms of Art

  • South German wood sculpture was important in developing new subjects that reflected the intensely emotional devotional life encouraged by movements in late medieval Catholicism such as German mysticism.
  • The Veil of Veronica is an example of an image that reflected the intensely emotional devotional life of Gothic-style art.

• German Expressionism

  • His work is noted for its intensity, as well as for the many self-portraits he produced.
  • In a brief career, cut short by her death at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity.

• Spanish Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • Rather, the works frequently exhibited a sense of pious devotion and religious intensity—attributes that would remain dominant in much art of Counter Reformation Spain throughout the 17th century and beyond.
  • The most popular Spanish painter of the early 16th century was Luis de Morales (c. 1510–1586), called "The Divine" by his contemporaries, because of the religious intensity of his paintings.

• Photorealism

  • Chuck Close is known for his intensely detailed paintings which are essentially indistinguishable from photographic images.

• Modern Sculpture

  • Rodin's work signified a departure from the traditional themes of mythology and allegory prevalent during his time, and instead modeled the human body with intense realism, celebrating the individual character, psychological states, and physicality of his subjects.