Associations to the word «Chiaroscuro»

Wiktionary

CHIAROSCURO, noun. (arts) An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of exaggerated light contrasts in order to create the illusion of volume.
CHIAROSCURO, noun. (arts) A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.
CHIAROSCURO, noun. (arts) The use of blocks of wood of different colors in a woodcut.
CHIAROSCURO, noun. (photography) A photographic technique in which one side of a face (for example) is well lit and the other is in shadow.

Dictionary definition

CHIAROSCURO, noun. A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King