What's the difference between chiaroscuro and monochrome?
Chiaroscuro
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro
Example Sentences:
(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."
Monochrome
Definition:
(n.) A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samsung's ML2160 monochrome laser printer, for example, costs about £50.
(2) Less powerful image analyzers offer medium resolution, and typically work with monochrome data acquired from video cameras.
(3) To investigate whether erythemal responses to ultraviolet radiation alter with age, we have reviewed the results of monochromator phototesting in adults and children, and have measured the dose-response curves for UVB erythema in a further 38 subjects.
(4) We used a small oxygen electrode and a grating monochromator of 10 mmu half-band width to determine light-saturation curves of photosynthesis for films of Chlorella pyrenoidosa no more than 1 cell thick.
(5) In both cases short-term treatment with azathioprine achieved a marked clinical improvement, confirmed by testing with an irradiation monochromator.
(6) Compared to available filter wheel and chopper devices, the rapid scan monochromator has advantages of rapid and software-selectable wavelength control, excellent optical alignment, small size, and low cost.
(7) A single color image may replace the multiple monochrome density range pictures now used for portraying CT information.
(8) In stark monochrome, it shows a group of people striding purposefully up O’Connell Street, beneath a sky streaked by vapour trails and the Gate theatre in the background.
(9) Although I've learned to appreciate the grim beauty of murkiness, the washrag skies and mud so jealous it clings to every step, this emerald vision in the monochrome gloom is startling.
(10) Topical (0.1%) applications of 8-MOP followed by exposure to narrow bands from a monochromator in the range of 300-380 nm produced a dose-dependent inhibition of DNA synthesis.
(11) The decision to shoot in monochrome, which is all too often linked to a photographic nostalgia for the heady days of reportage, is fully justified here.
(12) Solutions of C-phycocyanin of very low concentrations were examined by sedimentation-velocity studies in the Spinco model E ultracentrifuge equipped with a photoelectric scanning system and a monochromator.
(13) With stylish monochrome graphics and frequently fiendish puzzles, it's a rewarding and original adventure.
(14) The resulting monochrome sketch-like aesthetic has the quality of a dream or nightmare where worlds are transparent and fragmented.
(15) A servo motor moved an optical fiber across the lower surface of the muscle to collect transmitted light, which then was passed through a grating monochromator and onto a photomultiplier for spatial measurements of scattering (SMS) and transmittance spectra.
(16) As test sites, unexposed skin on the upper back was selected for irradiation using a prism monochromator and a 1 kW xenon arc source.
(17) The advent of layered synthetic microstructures, used primarily as wide-bandpass X-ray monochromators, heralded a new era in the use of XSW to study biologically relevant structures with a length scale of the order of tens of Angströms.
(18) Measurements of the spectral emmissivity, epsilon (lambda), of human skin described in a previous paper were performed with a modified monochromator by comparing the radiation from the skin with blackbody radiation in the wavelength range between 2 and 14 mum.
(19) Thus an intensified monochrome video camera has been equipped with a synchronized color filter wheel, and the image displayed by multiplexing alternate lines to a red green blue (RGB) monitor.
(20) Dunham, who looked glamorous in a monochrome 50s-style floral dress by Erdem, was joined at the screening by co-stars Allison Williams, who plays her screen best friend Marnie Michaels, and Zosia Mamet (Shoshanna Shapiro) as well as long-time fan Richard E Grant, who guest stars in the coming series.