Margret E. Short Fine Arts

Portland, Oregon artist Margret Short - a modern day master of 17th Century Dutch art using the chiaroscuro technique to create still life and floral paintings.

The Wedding of Thetis and Peleus

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About 470-460 BCE, the Wedding Painter painted this stunning vase. It measures 7 1/4″ high by 5 1/4″ wide. This one is actually quite small and many measured as much as 30″ high or more. Many of the artists signed their pieces and historians can now identify the style characteristics of each artist.

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The Wedding of Thetis and Peleus, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre, Sully first floor, room 39, case 11. Fauvel Collection.

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Chiaroscuro Painting

Oil painting with the chiaroscuro technique illuminates the focus area with a strong light. All other areas are painted with less detail, lower values, and intensity of color giving a mysterious appearance. By putting one or two objects in the important focus area, a strong but simple composition will emerge. Combining these oil painting techniques with a selection of superior natural pigments and oil paints result in the beautiful and evocative quality known as Chiaroscuro Painting.