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chiaroscuro
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chiaroscuro the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting; an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something. Recorded from the mid 17th century, the word comes from Italian, from
chiaro ‘clear bright’ (from Latin
clarus) +
oscuro ‘dark, obscure’ (from Latin
obscurus).
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X-ray visions: radiography, chiaroscuro, and the fantasy of unsuspicion in film noir.(Critical essay)(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Film Criticism; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...neophyte is the lighting technique known as chiaroscuro, the angular alternation of dark shadows...Whereas critics have long suggested that chiaroscuro fittingly evokes the postwar milieu...deeply. Instead of arguing about what chiaroscuro is supposed to represent historically...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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CHIAROSCURO\
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 6/5/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Philippines. Guerrero's photographic exhibition Chiaroscuro premieres at Calmer House Gallery in Joliet...shadows and highlights," he said. Translated, chiaroscuro means clear dark. Chiaroscuro is a technique in which the artist colors nearby...
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The Arts: The Technical Term is... Chiaroscuro
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/11/2000; ; 491 words
; ...compound of chiaro-oscuro. A picture in chiaroscuro is one where light and shade are highly...light. You can also talk, about the chiaroscuro of a picture, meaning its handling...by Velasquez and Rembrandt. Strong chiaroscuro is very dramatic. The invading light...
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The digital camera improves student learning.(teaching chiaroscuro)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...my classroom and taught a lesson on chiaroscuro technique. We visited Mark Harden...site.htm), looking at specific chiaroscuro drawings by Leonardo daVinci, Albrecht...from which they would create the actual chiaroscuro still-life drawing. They developed...
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Urban Chiaroscuro; An exhibition of recent work by Emily Allchurch; 9th October - 10th November 2007.
M2 Presswire; 10/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...Frost & Reed Contemporary: Urban Chiaroscuro; An exhibition of recent work by Emily...social order of his time. For Urban Chiaroscuro, Allchurch has reconstructed seven...attempting to impose order and control. Chiaroscuro', from the Italian meaning clear dark...
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Chiaroscuro: in response to John Constable's "A Boat Passing a Lock", 1826.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 9/1/2007; ; 458 words
; CHIAROSCURO In response to John Constable's "A Boat Passing a Lock", 1826 "I was always determined ... that my pictures should have chiaroscuro, if they had nothing else." The pilgrims follow the hawthorn hedge...
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Chiaroscuro
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 10/19/2008; 270 words
; New Straits Times 10-19-2008 Chiaroscuro Edition: New Sunday Times Section: Sunday People ENGLISH...Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. The two-week long exhibition, Chiaroscuro, ends on Oct 31. Harris' interest in art began at an early...
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Reviews: Camouflage: Chiaroscuro: Frosted, Melted
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 12/30/2001; ; 700+ words
; Camouflage Gavin Bowd diehard, GBP 7.90 **** Chiaroscuro John Murray diehard, GBP 7.99 **** Frosted, Melted...is searingly exposed. John Murray's collection, Chiaroscuro, is in part modelled on Goodsir Smith's Under the...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Review: Four out of five ain't bad; Chiaroscuro @ Gallery II, Waterfront Hall.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 2/4/2003; 587 words
; ...Guevara with the usual meaning of the painter's term 'chiaroscuro' - pronounced 'kyr-o-skoo' ro' - understood as the...no - Chearascura would seem to be but a misspelling of 'chiaroscuro' the also misspelt heading, ie chiaroscura on the accompanying...
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Chiaroscuro and Laurie Levine.(Life)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 12/20/2006; 389 words
; Enjoy a rare live appearance by Chiaroscuro at the Independent Armchair Theatre. They play a mixed bag of styles from jazz to rock, and traditional African music, and their...
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chiaroscuro
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
chiaroscuro (It.: ‘bright–dark’). Term describing...they are strongly contrasting. Leonardo was the great pioneer of bold chiaroscuro, but the term is most usually associated with 17th-century artists...
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chiaroscuro woodcut
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
chiaroscuro woodcut. A type of woodcut in which tonal effects are created by printing successively on to the same sheet from different blocks...
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Andrea del Sarto
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1512; Dresden) shows his deep understanding of Leonardo's art, particularly in the expressive and compositional use of chiaroscuro (light and shade). Andrea was very selective in the ideas and motifs that he derived from his great contemporaries Fra...
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Fra Angelico
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...of the more progressive styles of Masaccio and Masolino. The draperies of Fra Angelico's gentle people are modeled in chiaroscuro, and these Virgins, saints, and angels exist in a world constructed on the principles of linear and atmospheric perspective...
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Antonioni's first film in color. He used color to create psychological nuances and conceptual patterns not possible in chiaroscuro. The images of Red Desert explore the theme of human uneasiness in a world full of the splendors and miseries of technology...
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