Crossword-Solution: CHIAROSCURO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chiaroscuro | n. | Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro |
We have 14 clues for the answer “CHIAROSCURO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Artist's treatment of light and shade | 1 answer |
| Contrast of light and dark | 1 answer |
| LIGHT and shade effects in nature | 1 answer |
| LIGHT and shade treatment (of painting) | 1 answer |
| PAINTING, light and shade in | 1 answer |
| Technique used by Rembrandt | 1 answer |
| light contrast | 3 answers |
| mezzotint | 3 answers |
| light and shade | 4 answers |
| Highlights | 8 answers |
| A MONOCHROME PICTURE MADE BY USING SEVERAL DIFFERENT SHADES OF THE SAME COLOR | 11 answers |
| BLACK and white | 17 answers |
| Paint | 78 answers |
| Grey ____ | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMEZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CHIAROSCURO (5)
They may have annoyed you at the time, because they were not what you had meant; but how will they annoy you in the future, and how will they shake the fabric of your wife’s confidence and peace! A thousand things unpleasing went on in the _chiaroscuro_ of a life that you shrank from too particularly realising; you did not care, in those days, to make a fetish of your conscience; you would recognise your failures with a nod, and so, good day.
Followed as he followed it, with a skilful reticence, in a kind of social chiaroscuro, it was still possible for the polite to call him a professional painter.
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness.
Well, well! it was a glorious ambition, but what is the result? You have neither the stern attraction of severity nor the deceptive magic of the chiaroscuro.
Was he wearing a mask? Was anyone wearing a mask? Was anyone anything? This wood of witchery, in which men’s faces turned black and white by turns, in which their figures first swelled into sunlight and then faded into formless night, this mere chaos of chiaroscuro (after the clear daylight outside), seemed to Syme a perfect symbol of the world in which he had been moving for three days, this world where men took off their beards and their spectacles and their noses, and turned into other people.
Quotes with CHIAROSCURO (3)
Often, beyond the next turning, footfalls of a herd galloping across stone were heard, or further in the distance, with reassuring grunts, a wild boar could be seen, trotting with steady stride along the edge of the road with her sow and a whole procession of young in tow. And then one's heart beat faster upon advancing a little into the subtle light: one might have said that the path had suddenly become wild, thick with grass, its dark paving-slabs engulfed by nettles, black…
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1981–2007).