(L-to-R) Barkley L. Hendricks' Tuff Tony, Icon for Fifi, and Tequila
images taken from: http://nasher.duke.edu/galleries/main_gallery/?cat=1&offset=0&pic_id=1
This comparison is really more of an illustration of a point. When lighting figures who are wearing similar colors to the colors of the sources a designer always has to be aware of possible washing out. If the objects and the lights colors are too similar the figures can fade into the background and the whole scene can appear flat. Barkley L. Hendricks; however, seems to prefer scenes where the colors of his figures reflect the colors of the background and has some great solutions to any fading affects. First, off he uses contrasts in saturation and vibrancy, all of the backgrounds in these three pieces are much softer and much more tinted then the figures. Tequila features a light pink background and though the mixture of red and white on the woman's clothes reads overall as pinkish to the viewer, the woman's form is still fully realized thanks to the sheer vibrancy of the red and white. The same is true of Icon for Fifi which features a woman in a highly reflective satin yellow jumper against a more brownish and muted backdrop. For Tuff Tony it appears as if Barkley L. Hendricks added some light blues to the white of his background in order to make the man's white clothes seem that much more pure in comparison.
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