To See or Not See the Shadows. The Elusive Presence of Shadows in Reality and in your Pictures

Authors

  • Diego Gómez Sánchez Facultad de Bellas Artes. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revvisual.v3.494

Keywords:

Shadows, Painting, Visual Perception, Realism

Abstract

The history of the iconic representations shows that the concept of realism is neither rigid nor unchanging but, on the contrary, it is multiple and changeable, perhaps because the visual reality itself presents multiple faces to observers. Shadows are elements which, though always present in front of our eyes, are rarely taken into account when defining a picture as realistic. This article weighs the importance of the shadows as optical phenomena and aims to answer the question of why a non-shadows image can come to be believed as a faithful representation of reality.

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Published

2016-04-04

How to Cite

Gómez Sánchez, D. (2016). To See or Not See the Shadows. The Elusive Presence of Shadows in Reality and in your Pictures. VISUAL REVIEW. International Visual Culture Review Revista Internacional De Cultura Visual, 3(1), 69–88. https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revvisual.v3.494

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Research articles

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