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Material Properties

with

examples from popular


paintings of master artists

Artists are able


to depict
various material
properties in
paintings, such
as
transparency,
gloss, and
roughness, by
manipulating
pigments of
different color
and lightness.
Willem Claeszoon Heda
Still Life with a Lobster

artists have
successfully depicted
transparency in
simple line drawings,
strongly violating
physical constraints of
transparency. Such
pictures show us that
stimuli that deviate
from or misrepresent
object properties may
still trigger the
perception of various
material qualities
douard Manet
Flowers in a Crystal Vase, 1882

Still Life With Tazza


Jan Brueghel the Elder

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