What's the difference between chiaroscurist and chiaroscuro?
Chiaroscurist
Definition:
(n.) A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.
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Chiaroscuro
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro
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(1) The 17th-century masterpiece – a depiction of the newborn Christ on a bed of straw, painted in the chiaroscuro technique – was thought to have been painted by Caravaggio in Rome and later moved to Sicily, where it hung for centuries before being cut from its frame by two thieves in the night, never to be seen again.
(2) With some 50 pictures, including six by Caravaggio himself, it shows how quickly the key elements of his style were adopted – not just the dramatic chiaroscuro, but the emphasis on storytelling, on naturalism and the use of live models, of the importance of gesture and the interjection of real people into biblical scenes.
(3) His use of chiaroscuro is charged with symbolic meaning – the shadows of Naples's peeling courtyards and the brilliant sun without – as is the ominously constant backdrop of either Vesuvius or indigo raincloud.
(4) But while he couldn't hear tones, he obviously saw more tones than anyone else because his grasp of chiaroscuro was stunning, as good as Rembrandt."