Values painting

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Valeurmalerei , also known as tone-on-tone painting in oil painting , is a technique used in painting . In value painting, fine gradations ( tonal values , values ) of one or more related colors within an image (light-dark contrasts ) outweigh strong color contrasts. The colors merge.

The technical term occurs mainly in descriptions of impressionist paintings.

Examples

Jan van Goyen : Strandbild ( Strandgezicht met paard en wagen, op het duin praat een vrouw met twee rustende Reizigers ), 1638
James McNeill Whistler : Whistler's Mother , 1871
Claude Monet : Impression , 1872
Peder Severin Krøyer : Summer evening on the beach at Skagen , 1899

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Valeurs. In: Peter Wulf Hartmann : The large art dictionary by PW Hartmann. Retrieved May 22, 2017.
^ Kunstchronik , Nürnberg, Volume 27, 1974, ISSN 0023-5474 , p. 198 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
^ Lorenz Dittmann : Color design and color theory in occidental painting. An introduction. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1987, ISBN 3-534-02383-8 , p. 298 ( limited preview in the Google book search).