chiaroscuro

1 Caravaggio, who was 38 when he  died on a beach north of Rome in 1610, pioneered chiaroscuro, the painting technique of contrasting light and dark.

2 His The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, a large-scale chiaroscuro masterpiece, decorates the Oratory, for which it was painted, alongside his smaller but also impressive Saint Jerome Writing.

3 Nearly a quarter-century ago, of course, Miller first began sketching this chiaroscuro, black-and-white world of “Sin City,” which debuted in 1991’s “Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special.”

4 This chiaroscuro lends them a quality that is both ghostly and tangible.

5 He used Mediterranean shades of turquoise, pale green and dusty pink, alongside chiaroscuro scudding clouds and deep archways.

6 “Reader,” which portrays a blond girl seen sideways and dates from 1995, tells us that the painter spent time gazing at Georges de la Tour’s characters seen in the chiaroscuro light cast by candles.

7 The houselights went down, and chiaroscuro patches of warm and cool illumination passed across Ms. Vnucec’s form.

8 A play on chiaroscuro came through contrasting textures, shiny, sheer, matte or even wooly, for a snowflake ski sweater.

9 Like Caravaggio’s “Flagellation,” its depiction of violence in chiaroscuro reaches Baroque heights of intensity and drama.

10 Netflix’s House of Cards made its name by shocking and thrilling viewers with its political chiaroscuro and seductive cynicism.

11 Reader, do you know the definition of the word “chiaroscuro”? If you look in your dictionary, you will find that it means the arrangement of light and dark, darkness and light together.

12 What Corelli did was create a musical version of chiaroscuro by contrasting a big-sounding band of stringed instruments with a small group, switching between the big and the small throughout the piece.

13 It’s a stunning portrait in chiaroscuro, with Bonasera looking straight into the camera, his pale sculpted face floating in shadow.

14 Chief among them was Daniel Fish’s chiaroscuro reimagining of the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein tale of cowboys and farmers, freedom and restraint, independence and union.

15 Adam Silverman's lighting delineates each part of the action with chiaroscuro shadow and gleam, highlighting the men's weary faces and giving focus.

16 Do you prefer chiaroscuro dragons or the vivid daytime variety?

17 "The chiaroscuro of the dark and light, as well as the anxiety that is present in the work."

18 I found the stylised chiaroscuro presentation of the killing forest in Waltz With Bashir most compelling, a garden of Eden populated by boys with RPGs.

19 While there is great beauty in the chiaroscuro interplay between his expressionistic dissonances and Renaissance-style harmonies, his works never build toward resolution or transfiguration.

20 About three years later, however, Degas printed the plate with much excess ink to give it a distinctly Rembrandt-like chiaroscuro.

1 变化

variant mutant change variation transformation mutation variance vicissitude fluxion vary wax influence transmute interchange mutate

2 明暗对比

contrast

3 对比法

counterpoint antithesis