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(noun, Italian for light and dark) an oil painting technique developed during the Renaissance that uses strong tonal contrasts between light and dark to model three-dimensional forms

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chiaroscuro



Given the moral chiaroscuro we're entering

—p.196 by Antonio Garcia Martinez
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a discarded but upright Christmas tree that sits in a corner of the little lawn in my court. The chiaroscuro of its branches half covered with snow suggest the pen lines of an artist

—p.326 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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2 years, 1 month ago


The heavens, that best chiaroscuro, are color-blind

—p.20 by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 4 months ago


But the popularity of Zero Dark Thirty is not a product of the viewing public’s discerning eye for chiaroscuro.

—p.125 The Cinema of 9/11 (121) by Felix Biederman
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6 years, 3 months ago


Beloved is in one sense a fable about the chiaroscuro of staying half-merged to someone else, the redemptive power and the unholy danger of “not separate from.”

—p.44 Thin places (23) by Jordan Kisner
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3 years, 9 months ago


of chiaroscuro, non-“flat” lighting, although this is very rare even in early Ozu

—p.23 Ozu (15) by Paul Schrader
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3 years, 3 months ago


dark with the consciousness of human fate, and besotted with the high adjectival style of that consciousness as it lifts a coming-of-age narrative to the level of brilliant chiaroscuro meditation

ughhhh i love the way he writes

—p.422 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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4 years, 11 months ago


Wong’s cinematographers are almost as adept at rendering chiaroscuro as the great Caravaggio

—p.150 Wong’s Time Odyssey: 2046 (134) by Stephen Teo
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11 months, 1 week ago