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chiaroscuro
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chiaroscuro \Chia`ro*scu"ro\, ||Chiaro-oscuro \Chi*a"ro-os*cu"ro\, n. [It., clear dark.]
The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.
The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context arts English) An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of exaggerated light contrasts in order to create the illusion of volume. 2 (context arts English) A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color. 3 (context arts English) The use of blocks of wood of different colors in a woodcut. 4 (context photography English) A photographic technique in which one side of a face (for example) is well lit and the other is in shadow.
WordNet
n. a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color
Wikipedia
Chiaroscuro (; ; Italian for light-dark) in art is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures. Similar effects in cinema and photography also are called chiaroscuro.
Further specialized uses of the term include chiaroscuro woodcut for coloured woodcuts printed with different blocks, each using a different coloured ink; and chiaroscuro drawing for drawings on coloured paper in a dark medium with white highlighting.
Chiaroscuro was a horror series which appeared in the British weekly comic 2000 AD. It was written by Simon Spurrier with art by Cam Smith (also known as Smudge).
Chiaroscuro, meaning "light-dark" in Italian, is the use of contrast between light and dark in art.
Chiaroscuro may also refer to:
Chiaroscuro is a comic series developed by Canadian artist Troy Little between 2000 and 2005.
Chiaroscuro, in comics, may refer to:
- Chiaroscuro (2000 AD), a 2000 AD horror comic series.
- Chiaroscuro: The Private Lives of Leonardo da Vinci, a 1995-1996/2005 Vertigo comic book.
- Chiaroscuro (IDW Publishing), a 2000-2005/2007 series by Canadian artist Troy Little.
(Italian for "light-dark") is part of bel canto an originally Italian classical singing technique in which a brilliant sound referred to as squillo is coupled with a dark timbre called , which is often perceived as having great depth or warmth. Chiaroscuro is commonly used in opera. Within operatic singing, especially in Italian, the vowel "Ah" is a perfect example of where can be used. When singing "Ah" it must have a bright Italian "Ah", while at the same time having depth and space in the tone, achieved through the use of breath and the body.
Chiaroscuro is a live album by British musician, songwriter and producer Steven Wilson under the pseudonym Bass Communion. The title track was recorded live in Antwerp in November 2008. The second track, Fusilier also appears on the Bass Communion / Fear Falls Burning split 7" LP given away to attendees of the concert.
Chiaroscuro is the third album by singer Pitty. After 4 years without releasing a new album, Pitty launched Chiaroscuro on August 11, 2009.
Chiaroscuro is an album by American guitarist Ralph Towner and Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu recorded in 2008 and released on the ECM label.
Chiaroscuro is the second studio album by Swedish duo I Break Horses. It was released in January 2014 under Bella Union.
Usage examples of "chiaroscuro".
In formal chiaroscuro, all these are to be considered as white, and drawn as if they were carved in marble.
That is ignobly passionate chiaroscuro, rejoicing in darkness rather than light.
He took great delight in modelling, in perspective, of which he made himself a master, and in chiaroscuro, or light and shade.
Northern nature united with perfect execution, admirable drawing, great knowledge of chiaroscuro, powerful colouring, and a mastery of the brush which ranged from the minutest touch to broad, free execution.
He drew well, learnt chiaroscuro from studying Correggio, and colouring from analysing Titian.
The length of her middle finger, its thorax black, yellow-striped, its lower wings elongated into frilled arabesques like those of a festoon, deep yellow, charcoal black, with indigo eyespots, its upper wings a chiaroscuro of black and white stripes.
Next, here are two examples of the gradated shading expressive of the forms within the outline, by two masters of the chiaroscuro school.
They had extinguished all but one of the floodlights, leaving the sitechurch, tarpaulin and rimy mudin grim chiaroscuro.
A long clerestory of a hundred purple and brown panes admitted a warm umbrous light which enhanced the quality of posts, beams and panels, enriched the dark red cloth which covered the tables, and as if by purposeful chiaroscuro dramatized the features of the other persons in the room.
For all these contrasts between the actual and the ideal, Rembrandt had a perfect vehicle of artistic expression in chiaroscuro.
The length of her middle finger, its thorax black, yellow-striped, its lower wings elongated into frilled arabesques like those of a festoon, deep yellow, charcoal black, with indigo eyespots, its upper wings a chiaroscuro of black and white stripes.
Plus the academics who hated him hated the artificial sets and the chiaroscuro lighting, which the Stork had a total fetish for weird lenses and chiaroscuro.
Bare backs and white ties made a milling chiaroscuro backgrounded by hushed murmurs and the plastic chink of chips.
He came forward to stir the fire with the edge of the notebook, an old school looking sort of thing in crudely chiaroscuroed covers, Compositions lettered on the front, Name left blank, he banked it against the flames and got up pulling off the jacket he'd had on all this time, walked into the kitchen and looked in the refrigerator, into the dining room and looked at the plants, filled a clean glass to water a wilting member of the jewel-weed family, moving more slowly till now he was back staring at the books in the bookshelves, taking one down, and another, running through them to stop at pages checked in the margins, to stare at those passages perplexed as though someone else must have marked them, must have found some stinging revelation in this inconsequential line, or that one, jamming them back till he came on one with a narrow orange spine as if it were what he'd been after all this time.
Dumarest forced himself to relax, watching the flicker of lightning beyond the mouth of the cave, the dancing chiaroscuros touching raft and rock and splintered walls.