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NOTAN
LIGHT AND DARK HARMONY

Notan is a Japanese term that literally means "light-dark harmony". Artists use "notan studies" to explore different arrangements of light and dark elements in a painting without having the distraction of other elements like colour, texture and finer details.

Notan is the underlying abstract framework, or pattern of lights and darks, upon which the value structure of a painting is created.

Artist Statement - Kim Toolin

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