With the word "chiaroscurist" in mind, that idea re-emerged from the shadows. From Wordnik.com. [Appoggiatura] Reference
One of those words, "chiaroscurist" struck a chord with me because I've always been a bit of a fan of the technique of chiaroscuro, the balance of light and dark. From Wordnik.com. [Appoggiatura] Reference
Now if I could just think of a joke starting "A chiaroscurist, a euonymist and a solipsist walk into a bar ...". From Wordnik.com. [Another Interview] Reference
So it was a piece of cake for her to slice through her final challenge, "" chiaroscurist '' (an artist who works in light and shade). From Wordnik.com. [A Daedal Test Of Parrhesia] Reference
Greek schools, sometimes as the colorist and chiaroscurist. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871] Reference
We get some quality time with Platinum Games 'chiaroscurist bloodbath for the Nintendo Wii. From Wordnik.com. [GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features] Reference
He was a colorist and a chiaroscurist; and he had a great deal more interest in light and in landscape than most of the painters of his time. From Wordnik.com. [Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects] Reference
The distinction between the colorist and chiaroscurist school is trenchant and absolute: and may soon be shown you so that you will never forget it. From Wordnik.com. [Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving] Reference
Next, this anonymous painter must have been a singularly refined and poetical artist, a master of brilliant colour, and an accomplished chiaroscurist. From Wordnik.com. [Giorgione]
I have always spoken of the Greek, or essentially sculpture-loving schools, as chiaroscurist; always of the Gothic, or colour-loving schools, as non-chiaroscurist. From Wordnik.com. [Val d'Arno] Reference
For instance, a chiaroscurist of Lionardo's school, drawing a leopard, would take no notice whatever of the spots, but only give the shadows which expressed the anatomy. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870] Reference
This at once marks the picture as belonging to the lower or chiaroscurist school, even if you had not before recognized it as such by its pretty rendering of sunset effect. From Wordnik.com. [Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving] Reference
He was a chiaroscurist, and not naturally offended by their violent light and shade, until George Richmond showed him the more excellent way in colour, the glow of Venice, first hinting it at Rome in. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Ruskin] Reference
A modern French or English chiaroscurist would have covered his sky with fleecy clouds, and relieved the plowman's hat and his horses against it in strong black, and put sparkling touches on the furrows and grass. From Wordnik.com. [Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving] Reference
By being studious of color they are studious of division; and while the chiaroscurist devotes himself to the representation of degrees of force in one thing -- unseparated light, the colorists have for their function the attainment of beauty by arrangement of the divisions of light. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871] Reference
But for my own part, with what poor gift and skill is in me, I belong wholly to the chiaroscurist school; and shall teach you therefore chiefly that which I am best able to teach: and the rather, that it is only in this school that you can follow out the study either of natural history or landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870] Reference
Zanetti was the librarian of St. Mark’s and the nephew of the famous chiaroscurist. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
Beside, I put a chiaroscurist drawing (at least, a photograph of one), Dürer's from nature, of the common wild wall-cabbage (Edu. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870] Reference
Ok, so, a chiaroscurist, a euonymist and a solipsist walk into a bar and the chiarascurist turns to the euonymist and says, "So, eh, what's a 'euonymist', anyway?" and the solipsist says, "It takes one to know one! ha ha ha" And the chiaroscurist says, "Shut up; if you can't make it all clear right there in black & white, then just admit that you don't know what a 'euonymist' is either, ya big sissy.". From Wordnik.com. [Another Interview] Reference
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