Saturday, March 10, 2012

March 10, 2012 - Chiaroscuro

If you are anything like me, you looked at the title of this post and went "huh?".
According to Wikipedia (I know, I know if you are one of my students, yes I used Wikipedia here which they got from the Glossary of the National Gallery, London.) Chiaroscuro is "an Italian term which literally means 'light-dark'. In paintings the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modelling of the subjects depicted".

In this image chiaroscuro happens when there are big storms, no power, and your only light source is from a cell phone. ;)

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