Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro is a method for applying value to a two-dimensional piece of artwork to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form.
Chiaroscuro
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CHIAROSCURO (from the Ital. chiaro, light or brightness, and oscuro, darkness or shade), the disposition of light and shade in a painting; ...
Chiaroscuro
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chiaroscuro
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Definition:
An Italian word literally meaning "light dark", used to describe the skillful balance of light and dark in a painting, with strong contrasts to create dramatic effect.
Chiaroscuro
Italian term used in that form in English. It translates as light-dark, and refers to the balance and pattern of light and shade in a painting or drawing.
Chiaroscuro
The term originated as a name for a type of Renaissance drawing on coloured paper, where the artist worked from this base tone towards light, with white gouache, and dark, with ink, bodycolour or watercolour.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Chiaroscuro
Even in an era of boundless scientific discovery and technological invention, and of sublime artistic and humanistic achievement, ...
Chiaroscuro
Italian for 'lightdark', chiaroscuro is defined as a bold contrast between both light and dark.
chiaroscuro - The term chiaroscuro refers to the fine art painting modeling effect of using a strong contrast between light and dark to give the illusion of depth or three-dimensionality.
Chiaroscuro - In drawing, painting, and the graphic arts, chiaroscuro (ke-ära-skooro) concerns the rendering of forms through a balanced contrast between light and dark areas.
Chiaroscuro (Ke-ära-skooro)
The technique of using light and shade in pictorial representation used in drawing, painting and the graphic arts.
Chiaroscuro The dramatic use of light and shadow to create a mood or a focal point in a painting.
Collage A grouping of different textured materials or objects on a generally flat surface.
chiaroscuro
A term (Italian: "light" and "dark") referring to the modeling of mass by carefully arranging the tones from dark to light creating a dramatic three-dimensional realism.
Chiaroscuro
A word borrowed from Italian ("light" and "dark") referring to the modeling of volume and depth by depicting light and shade by contrasting them boldly
Classical ...
Chiaroscuro: Literally light and dark, shading. A form of expression favoured by Rembrandt and his school.
Classical: Established ideals of perfection.
Coat: A layer of paint.
Chiaroscuro
Italian for "light-dark", the gradations of light and dark values in two-dimensional imagery creating an illusion of rounded, three-dimensional form; highly developed by Renaissance painters; ...
Chiaroscuro: 1) The rendering of light and shade in painting; the subtle gradations and marked variations of light and shade for dramatic effect. 2) The style of painting light within deep shadows.
chiaroscuro: using the contrast and transitioning of light and dark areas to create the illusion of three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.
CHIAROSCURO
Term is used to describe the effect of light and shade in a painting or drawing, especially where strong tonal contrasts are used. Return to top
CROSSHATCHING ...
CHIAROSCURO the use of light and shadow to create a focal point or mood.
CLASSICAL originating in Greece and Rome; represents unadorned beauty.
chiaroscuro - (pronounced kyar-oh-scoor-oh) - Italian term for light and dark, referring to the modeling of form by the use of light and shade.
chiaroscuro In drawing and painting, the use of light and dark to create the effect of three-dimensional, modeled surfaces.
chiaroscuro The contrast of light and dark in a painting, used for dramatic effect.
chinoiserie A European decorating style using Chinese and other "oriental" ornamentation, most fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Chiaroscuro Woodcut
A print in colors from two or more blocks which provide the overall background tone for the composition while unprinted areas of white paper act as highlights.
chiaroscuro
chiastic - Principally a literary formation, characterized by an inversion of the order of words in two otherwise corresponding parallel phrases, as in the example: "She gave to the poor, to the poor gave she."
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CHIAROSCURO - Literally, 'light-dark.' The dramatic use of light and shade to create a mood or definition without obvious line.
Chiaroscuro Drawing
A manner of drawing by which the usual drawing method of applying dark strokes over light colored paper is reversed. Instead, the composition is defined by light values, such as white gouache, over a dark ground.
Chiaroscuro
In Italian, CHIARO literally means light and OSCURO means dark. Chiaroscuro, therefore, is the use of light and shade in a drawing or painting, particularly works in which the light and dark contrasts are very pronounced.
Chiaroscuro
The arrangement and relationship of light against dark parts in a work of art
Classical Style
The artistic style of ancient Greek art with its emphasis on proportion and harmony ...
Chiaroscuro, sfumato, frieze/triglyphs/metopes, dome/drum/base, balustrade, quoins, cornice, Book of the Courtier, terribilita, sybils, Council of Trent, genius
8. Venetian Renaissance (1500-1600)
Mannerism (1520-1600) ...
CHIAROSCURO; [15th century] light and dark in a painting, often well defined showing single light direction.
chroma...1. The purity of color or its freedom from white, black, or gray. 2. The intensity of hue.
CHIAROSCURO:
Italian for light/dark. Shading forms with strong contrasts.
COLLAGE: ...
Chiaroscuro: See section on Light; Italian word for 'light-shade' the use and balance of light and shade in a paint, and in particular the use of strong contrasts.
In chiaroscuro, the shadow cast by a figure, darker than the shadowed surface itself.
Also see chiaroscuro, cinquecento, incunabulum, perspective, quatrocento, and science and art.
chiaroscuro - clear dark, strong light and shade in a painting or drawing which give an illusion of depth, a dramatic effect or etc. * ...
Chiaroscuro. Method of arranging light and shadow in two- dimensional art to create the illusion of three-dimensional form. Clay. A natural earthly material which is plastic when wet and becomes hard and brittle upon treatment by high heat (firing).
Tendency to follow the style of Caravaggio, exhibited by the Caravaggisti (17th-century painters working in Rome), who made particularly dramatic use of chiaroscuro.
Caricature ...
The composition was significant for its grouping of figures, their expressive gestures and its chiaroscuro effect (also a characteristic of the unfinished St Jerome). During 1483 L.
Chiaroscuro - Chiaroscuro applies to the brightnes and darkness in paintings when tone rather than colour is the dominant characteristic ...more info ...
CHIAROSCURO
a method of using darks and lights to create an illusion of naturalistic depth.
DRY BRUSH
literally the application of paint using an "almost" dry brush. The paint is applied in a thin manner.
ENCAUSTIC ...
Baroque painting often dramatizes scenes using chiaroscuro light effects; this can be seen in works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Le Nain and La Tour.
The various aspects of the scene are "built up" from the base with very delicate, paper-thin layers of paint in chiaroscuro (the balance of light and shadow) relief.
The introduction of oil paints in the 15th century, replacing tempera, encouraged the development of chiaroscuro, for oil paint allowed a far greater range and control of tone.
After the painter sets the lines down on the paper, he uses watercolor wash techniques to achieve a chiaroscuro effect of light and dark, representing the forces of "yin" and "yang", ...
Key Descriptive Words and Phrases associated with the Renaissance Movement - rebirth, rediscovery of the classical world, sfumato, chiaroscuro, publication of Della Pittura, a book about the laws of mathematical perspective for artists, ...
The Cubist emphasized a flat, two-dimensional surface and rejected the idea that art should imitate nature, refusing traditional techniques such as perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro.
"The artist's especially adroit manipulation of chiaroscuro as pertains to fur is a cri de coeur for the viewer to consider the artist's feline subjects objectively, rather than subjectively viewing them as objects."
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" In Delacroix's words, "all the great problems of art were resolved in the 16th century"; perfection "in drawing, grace and composition" had been attained by Raphael, and in "colour and chiaroscuro" by Correggio, Titian, and Paolo Veronese.
The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honoured theories of art as the imitation of nature.
See chiaroscuro , drapery , and vignette . Petrus Christus (Flemish, Bruges, active by 1444 -1475/76), A Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius , 1449, oil on wood panel , 38 5/8 x 33 1/2 inches (98 x 85.2 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Chiaroscuro: From the Italian for light and dark. In painting, a method of modeling form primarily by the use of light and shade.
Cire-Perdu Process: The lost-wax process of casting.
 See also: Painting, Composition, Movement, Sculpture, Renaissance
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