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Chiaroscuros

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meaning and pronunciation

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apparently: Kiaroscuro

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from wikipedia

summary

is a term in art for a contrast between light and dark. The term is usually applied to bold contrasts affecting a whole composition, but is also more technically used by artists and art historians for the use of effects representing contrasts of light, not necessarily strong, to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human body.

Further specialised uses of the term are "chiaroscuro woodcut", used for coloured woodcuts printed with different blocks, each using a different coloured ink, and "chiaroscuro drawing" used for drawings on coloured paper with drawing in a dark medium and white highlighting. The term is now also used in describing similar effects in the lighting of cinema and photography.

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example

Match Maker by Gerrit Van Honthorst. The link pointing to an image in wikipedia.

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also could mean

a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color

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define:grisaille

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wikipedia ref

is a term for painting executed entirely in monochrome, usually in shades of grey or brown, particularly used in decoration to represent objects in relief

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example of a grisaille