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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky