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Marvin, maybe we agree on this part-I'm not sure. Nature on this planet, has fixed ranges of value "on a sunnny day". Paint has fixed ranges of value. In order to depict the former we may use only the latter.
What I see too often are weak paintings where artists don't use all the tools available to them. Some landscape painters like Cyle Aspevig, T Moran, F Church can paint sunlight and distance wonderfully. Sargent and Bougureau can paint sunlight falling on figures in ways that move us. It is only when an artist understands NOT ONLY THE LIMITS of paint but also the OPPORTUNITIES of paint that work becomes more than dull and mediocre.
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