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How to use chiaroscuro in a sentence

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The brusque application of plaster disrupts the logic of the painting's chiaroscuro.
He uses chiaroscuro to singular effect, notably in his haunted nightscapes and cloudscapes.
The splendid portrait photographs have the chiaroscuro clarity as well as the mannered studiedness of Beaton works.
The column screens and niches around the room create a mysterious and alluring chiaroscuro effect.
He creates rocky landscape backgrounds with misty atmospheric perspective, using sfumato and chiaroscuro to describe colour transitions.
Partly because of his interest in chiaroscuro, Leonardo was not very interested in color.
In the chiaroscuro of this place of offering, figured with the wax and soot of burned candles, a chicken scratches near a sacrificial stone.
Lot and His Daughters betrays the influence of Caravaggio in the heavy chiaroscuro light effects and the deftly modelled figures.
Its dazzling chiaroscuro and painterly bravura surpass his earlier performances.
Things have been more diverse since, and our latest review of house prices is a picture with dramatic chiaroscuro.
And this chiaroscuro will make us human, humble, understanding and generous.
This obliges the artist to illuminate the central part of the work intensely, forming a contrast similar to chiaroscuro.
Like a chiaroscuro painting, her porcelain skin contrasts with the dark, silky colors of the heavy drapes.
This process produces fine tonal nuances in images that can be aesthetically characterised as chiaroscuro.
The film is set in a Taranto bursting with colours, chiaroscuro, shadows and light.
His deformed human shapes, use of chiaroscuro, and the luminous haloes in certain places are typical of his work.
Prefiguring Expressionist chiaroscuro in their tonal brilliance, they achieve the seemingly impossible brief of ensnaring the transitory temperament of meteorological effects.
The acknowledged master of chiaroscuro was, of course, Rembrandt.
This chiaroscuro portrait, intended only to sell underwear, comes alarmingly close to capturing the man.
One would be hard pressed to find a group of Renaissance prints less like Mantegna's than the six chiaroscuro woodcuts of Apostles by Domenico Beccafumi.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They prudishly despised the anatomic study of the human figure, of landscape and chiaroscuro.
In chiaroscuro, and in delicacy of execution he is not inferior to his master.
For it is as a symbol, not as a scenic effect, that in each case the chiaroscuro is given.
But none of this character is assisted by the colouring, or the chiaroscuro.
The erect form of the Madonna is relieved in striking chiaroscuro against the mantle, upheld by putti.
It certainly neglects chiaroscuro and linear perspective, and it displays an entire lack of form knowledge.
The typical German chiaroscuro was therefore from two blocks.
I was in train to interpret for Ma'moiselle the chiaroscuro.
Thus they were familiar with chiaroscuro before the European painters.
The third is complete in chiaroscuro, as far as engraving can be.
The Interactive line also includes chiaroscuro colors, mixing greys, and micaceous colors for artists who seek convenience from their paint.
Mezzotint is properly to be considered as chiaroscuro drawing on metal.
Shafts of light between them dappled the earth a chiaroscuro pattern.
In Acla, Grimaldi combines heated Caravaggesque chiaroscuro with long, adoring panning shots to present the naked and dishabille bodies of the miners.
Followed as he followed it, with a skilful reticence, in a kind of social chiaroscuro, it was still possible for the polite to call him a professional painter.
Chiaroscuro is most often found as an art term, although it can apply to many things.
The exhibition, called Chiaroscuro and Other Attractions, will also feature a selection of textile exhibits from around the world, never before seen in North Wales.
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