Seeing Light

Vilhelm Hammershøi

Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams

1901

Oil on canvas, 63 × 52.5 cm. Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen

Here the light itself is the subject: an empty room, a window, and shafts of sun.

• Ordrupgaard says the light lies "like a geometrical form across the floor".
• The shafts show in the air, crossing the room diagonally from the window.

Concepts

• Cast Shadows

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