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What (who) is Chiaroscuro - definition

USE OF STRONG CONTRASTS BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARK, USUALLY BOLD CONTRASTS AFFECTING A WHOLE COMPOSITION IN ART
Clair-obscure; Chiaoscuro; Chairoscuro; Chiarascuro; Chiaro-Oscuro; Chiar'oscuro; Clair-obscur; Chiarroscurro; Chiarroscuro; Charoscuro; Chiaroscuro drawing
  • Still from [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s 1975 film ''[[Barry Lyndon]]'', some of which was shot using only candlelight
  • ''Christ at Rest'', by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], 1519, a chiaroscuro drawing using pen, ink, and brush, washes, white heightening, on ochre prepared paper
  • Nativity at Night]]'' by [[Geertgen tot Sint Jans]], c. 1490, after a composition by [[Hugo van der Goes]] of c. 1470; sources of light are the infant Jesus, the shepherds' fire on the hill behind, and the angel who appears to them.
  • ''The Matchmaker'' by [[Gerrit van Honthorst]], 1625
  • Chiaroscuro woodcut of the Virgin and Child by [[Bartolommeo Coriolano]], created between 1630 and 1655 (digitally restored)
  • [[Peter Paul Rubens]]'s ''The Elevation of the Cross'' (1610–1611) is modelled with dynamic chiaroscuro.
  • Detail of ''[[La Fornarina]]'' (1518–19) by [[Raphael]], shows delicate modelling chiaroscuro in the body of the model, for example in the shoulder, breast, and arm on the right
  • [[Joseph Wright of Derby]] painted several large groups with strong chiaroscuro, such as ''[[A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery]]'', 1766

chiaroscuro         
Chiaroscuro is the use of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place.
...the natural chiaroscuro of the place.
N-UNCOUNT
chiaroscuro         
[k???:r?'sk??r??]
¦ noun the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting.
Origin
C17: from Ital., from chiaro 'clear, bright' + oscuro 'dark, obscure'.
Chiaroscuro         
·noun ·Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro.

Wikipedia

Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro (Italian for 'light-dark'; English: ; kee-AR-ə-SKOOR-oh, -⁠SKURE-; Italian: [ˌkjaroˈskuːro]), 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 black and white and low-key photography, are also 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 originated in the Renaissance period but is most notably associated with Baroque art. Chiaroscuro is one of the canonical painting modes of the Renaissance (alongside cangiante, sfumato and unione) (see also Renaissance art). Artists known for using the technique include Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Goya, and Georges de La Tour.

Examples of use of Chiaroscuro
1. I dwell on the chiaroscuro of journalism not in an accusatory spirit, but as self–criticism.
2. Henriksen‘s exquisite solo albums, Sakuteiki and Chiaroscuro, have won particular praise, as has his production of the first CD by a young piano trio called In the Country.
3. His drawings are accumulations of shorthand forms, squiggles and dots, dashes and hooks, whose density provides surface with its fluctuation of light; but they have almost no chiaroscuro as such.
4. The Korean painting with a long history reflects well the reality so as to give people cubic, chiaroscuro and infinitely spatial effects that one cannot feel at the European paintings based on surface representation and oriental paintings based on Indian ink and lines.