chiaroscuro
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:02 am
We sat out in the shadows behind our house staring into the woods just fifty feet beyond our fence. I raised my binoculars to my eyes as a shadow scurried into my field of vision. The overhanging trees clothed the ground in darkness but a small amount of light penetrated the murk behind the forest where the angry sultry sun was sinking. Just as the deer appeared as though materialized I noticed a patch of leaves painted a chiaroscuro black-bordered yellow-green. Tomorrow the undergrowth will obliterate the painting I was given and only the tenebrific will reign.
Katychiaroscuro
Dictionary
chi·a·ro·scu·ro (kē-är'ə-skʊr'ō, -skyʊr'ō)
n., pl. -ros. In all senses also called claire-obscure.
The technique of using light and shade in pictorial representation.
The arrangement of light and dark elements in a pictorial work of art.
A woodcut technique in which several blocks are used to print different shades of a color.
A woodcut print made by this technique.
[Italian : chiaro, bright, light (from Latin clārus, clear) + oscuro, dark (from Latin obscūrus).]
chi·a'ro·scu'rist n.
Encyclopedia
chiaroscuro (kyärōskū'rō) [Ital.,=light and dark], term once applied to an early method of printing woodcuts from several blocks and also to works in black and white or monotone. Today it is used loosely to refer to the distribution of light and dark in painting.
Obscure
chiaroscuro
the quality of being veiled or partly in shadow
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