Re:Design Tip: Never Use Black
by huffman on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @05:05PM
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A good counter example to the pop art painter are Baroque painters, who used very dark colors very heavily in their pieces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_painting
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Not much of those you linked to actually use pure black, but this one comes pretty close:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_de_Zurbarán_018....
It also happens to show very nicely what's wrong with using pure black as shadows: they're not shadows, they're holes.
(what a god-awful painting, btw. and they compare his work to Caravaggio's ... )