Chiaroscuro

the cool accent colors create a sense of peace and calmness. Local color presents features or aspects of the natural appearance of things, and is what’s used in this particular piece. Chiaroscuro is the use of light (highlights) and dark (shadows) to create the illusion of volume and mass in an artwork. The Chiaroscuro used throughout The Hammock is clearly visible on the girls, which is what allows them to appear as three-dimensional…

The film used the chiaroscuro effect which is derived from the Italian words for light and dark (www.vocabulary.com). This technique was used in the most prominent scenes of the film, for example Harry’s reveal. As Holly is chasing Harry throughout the dark streets at night…

ideas included the four innovations: triangular form, chiaroscuro, different perspectives, and oil paints. It also used precise studies of human anatomy to perfect the depictions of human figures in pieces of art (Gardner’s 259). The Baroque period brought artist such as Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Bernini. These artist twisted many of the common ideas found in the Renaissance into a new form. Reinventing many ideas such as chiaroscuro, by adding a higher intensity light and deeper…

aesthetics of new and old Hispanic Baroques (Egginton 2010). The low key on the Figure 1 has forms of baroque technique that was used in the seventies by the use of terminology “Chiaroscuro” (Wilker 2013). Chiaroscuro basically means from ‘dark to light’ or high contrast (Wilker 2013). The visual artefact has the chiaroscuro effect. The other prominent technique is called “Sfumato” (Wilker 2013). Sfumato is mainly blurring and subtle blending of tones into one another, this is the glow depicted…

such as brown, black, tan; expect the woman who is dressed in pink. The woman and the baby are lighter then the rest of the painting, indicating that she or the baby is most likely the focal point. Like many of his other paintings, Murillo used chiaroscuro to emphasis drama, and focal points (Gillet). According to “A Masterpiece Revealed”, a documentary on another artwork done by Murillo, Murillo also has done multiple pieces of work representing religious stories. He commonly included the…

reds for the clothes of the women. With Leonardo da Vinci’s limited color palette for most of his paintings, brings more attention to the objects of his painting. Chiaroscuro is the shadow cast by a figure that is darker than the shadowed surface itself (Adams, 2003). The painting’s figures feet is where a viewer can see the chiaroscuro of this painting, where it is dark and hard to see the reason behind the overly shadowed area. The next visual element found in the painting is intensity, the…

Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael both formed the iconic dyad of the epitome of Renaissance art. In Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna of the Rocks as well as Raphael’s rendition of da Vinci’s painting Madonna in the Meadow, a religious scene is depicted with Madonna gazes towards an exchange between Saint John and Jesus Christ in infantry as she realizes the grave future that Christ faces. While both paintings feature the same biblical figures in similar fashion, Raphael’s rendering takes on a brighter…

He started with chiaroscuro focused paintings to give an explanation for the form. The sole purpose of light is never more than a means to create form. This incorporated monochromatic colours and light sources with unclear origin points. It was like depicting an impossible…

Angelico and Lippi were able to utilize two, new and innovative art techniques. The first being the tondo, which rounded the viewer’s sight of vision as if one was looking at Mary and her newborn baby through a telescope and the other being the use of chiaroscuro-a contrast of light and dark that helped place emphasis on the scenery around the biblical figures by adding a layer of depth and a new sense of perspective. Lippi and Angelico showed the noteworthiness and beauty of life down here on…

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump). Painted in 1768, oil paint on canvas, it serves to express the Industrial Revolution (An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump). The painting’s dimensions are 183 centimeters tall and 244 centimeters wide (An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump). This paper’s purpose will be to analyze and interpret not only Wright’s art, but his life and era as well in an effort to…