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Effect produced by accidental lights
This article is about the lighting effect. For the movement, see Accidentalism (art).
In painting, accidentalism is the effect produced by accidental lights.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Accidentalism". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 114., citing John Ruskin, Modern Painters, I. II. 4, iii. § 4, 287.
The dictionary definition of accidentalism at Wiktionary
