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School of Light

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The burgeoning prominence of photography and film brought a new culture of light into art. In the early 20th century artists harnessed the power of film to ex..

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Light play: black-white-gray = Ein lightspiel: scwarz-weiss-grau

United States, 1930
Similarity: 78%

Interior Light

Similarity: 74%

Expanded Light

Similarity: 72%

Light and Colour

Similarity: 72%

Lichtspiel Schwarz-Weiss-Grau

Germany, 1930
Similarity: 72%

Light Impressions

Similarity: 72%

Memory of Moholy-Nagy

Hungary, 1990
Similarity: 72%

LICHTSPIEL SCHWARZ-WEISS-GRAU

1933
Similarity: 71%

Light Music

1975
Similarity: 71%

Light from within

United States, 1977
Similarity: 70%

Scientific Light

Similarity: 70%

Light Reflection

1941
Similarity: 69%

Lines and volumes

France, 1997
Similarity: 69%

Spiritual Light

Similarity: 69%

K VII

1922
Similarity: 69%

Left to right: Light Reflection 1941 Circles and Dots c.1939–1940 Structure Photogram c.1939–1940 Branches c.1939–1940 Blobs 3 c.1939–1940 Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper

Similarity: 69%

Man Ray films

France, 1998
Similarity: 69%

Substantial shadows

Austria, 1987
Similarity: 68%
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