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chiaroscuro
noun
(chiar-oscu-ro)
pictorial representation in terms of light and shade without regard to color
chiaroscuro
noun
(chiar-oscu-ro)
the arrangement or treatment of light and dark parts in a pictorial work of art
chiaroscuro
noun
(chiar-oscu-ro)
the interplay or contrast of dissimilar qualities (as of mood or character)
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sfumato
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grisaille
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impasto
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underpainting
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brushwork
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expressionist
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pointillism
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portraiture
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stylization
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tenebrism
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spareness
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naturalism
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pictorialism
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hyperrealism
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monumentality
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maeterlinck
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stylisation
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surrealism
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illusionism
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chiaroscurist
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nocturnes
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ethereality
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translucence
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tonalities
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mise en scene
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abstractionism
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theatricality
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figuration
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masaccio
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jan van eyck
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ruisdael
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staginess
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mannerist
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spatiality
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alla prima
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starkness
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sensuousness
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crosshatching
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draughtsmanship
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silverpoint
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palette knife
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impassivity
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chromaticism
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mozartian
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ephemerality
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magic realism
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sumptuousness
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tableau vivant
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evocation
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foreshortening
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interiority
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apollonian
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pensiveness
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immanence
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lyricism
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drypoint
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neorealism
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cocteau
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ultramarine
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academicism
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pieta
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poeticism
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expressivity
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arioso
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carnality
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symbolist
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fra filippo lippi
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grand guignol
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commedia
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yellow ocher
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horizontality
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nightscape
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piero della francesca
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feydeau
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landscapist
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neoclassicism
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cavatina
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allegretto
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hieronymus bosch
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abjection
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lushness
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divina commedia
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steaminess
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adagios
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scenography
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didacticism
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shadings
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aestheticism
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aquatint
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plaintiveness
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georges seurat
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monotype
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singspiel
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sonnambula
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film noir
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lucent
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mozartean
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evanescence
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berceuse
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impressionism
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chiaroscuro
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