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Chiaroscuro
The contrast between light and dark- APEX
It can direct the viewer's eye wherever the artist wants it to go
To draw attention to and reveal the subject's personality.
Because he liked the idea of the lit main subject standing out from the dark background. Don't you? It is called chiaroscuro.
Chiaroscuro is often applied to works created during the Mannerism and Baroque eras. So artist such as Rembrandt Carravagio ( Although carravigism is a mix of chiaroscuro and tenebrism) Hugo van der Goes Tintoretto Adam Elsheimer and more.
Chiaroscuro is the use of value contrasts to produce modeling. Artists use it by making the lightest parts of a subject very light, and the shadows very dark. Often an artist will make a value scale to help them determine what values will seem most realistic.
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro
Tenebroso
Tenebroso
The contrast between light and dark
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro is and art term which describes the use of value contrasts to produce modeling. You could use it in a sentence while describing any 2-dimensional art that uses value contrasts to make things look real. You would say "The painter used chiaroscuro to make this statue look 3-dimensional."
The contrast between light and dark- APEX
Chiaroscuro
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