| This article deals with the effect and its interesting aspects of "light" and"shadow" in watercolor painting. As the art language in watercolor painting, they havetheir unique artistic expression. With the increased understanding of them, artists indifferent periods have differed methods of interpreting them. Taking full use of theirunique expression can become more likely the visual expression signal for artists instructuring picture form and expressing subjective thoughts. Through the research andanalysis of interesting effects on both domestic and foreign watercolor paintings, thearticle tries to detect the artistic expressive power of ’light’ and ’shadow’ art language.Part1sketches the meaning of ’light’ and ’shadow’ led by physical theories; part2illustrates the expression methods by means of their forming on material, effectinglight and dark of pictures and influencing the space structure; stresses their interestingaspects from picture atmosphere creation, abstraction characteristics, implicitexpression, intelligence, reflection on color language and function on expressingemotions; the last chapter makes the conclusion on the development direction. Thearticle explains the theme from artistic expression power, the inside dimension ofmentality. It also provides thoughtful discussion on their interesting aspect byexplaining their performance and effects. |