Painting with Light
type: Item
label: Schilderen met licht @nl
label: Mit Licht malen @de
label: Malování se světlem @cs
label: Dipingere con la luce @it
label: Pintando con la luz @es
label: Måla med ljus @sv
description: The spotlight and the ‘multi-lantern complexity’
description: De schijnwerper en de complexiteit van meerdere spots @nl
description: Das Spotlight und die ‘multi-lantern complexity’ @de
description: Štychy a komplexní práce se světlem @cs
description: La luce dei riflettori e la complessità multi-lampada"" @it
description: Los focos y la complejidad de las linternas"" @es
description: Strålkastaren och komplexiteten i stora ljusriggar @sv
Canon story number: 63
Canon story code: C.07
time frame: Inter-war Period
Canon story topic: Lighting
Field: lighting and projection
Link to internal Canonbase page: Painting_with_Light
Link to internal Canonbase page: Schilderen_met_licht
Instance of: Canon stories
Canon story description: In the inter-war period, increasingly powerful electric lamps enabled the first spotlights, creating focused beams of light. A new lighting style emerged, based on large numbers of sources, each lighting a small portion of the stage with precision.
Canon story refers to: A Multi-lantern Complexity - Why?
Canon story refers to: Arc light
Canon story refers to: incandescent lamp
Canon story refers to: lens spotlight
Canon story refers to: Adolphe Appia
Canon story refers to: Festspielhaus Hellerau (DE) [Dresden]
Canon story refers to: Ellipsoidal reflector spotlight
Canon story refers to: fresnel
Canon story refers to: Josef Svoboda
Canon story refers to: PAR can
Canon story refers to: A Method of Lighting the Stage