Friday, July 18, 2014

"Chiaroscuro," Three


       "Chiaroscuro" . . . come on, say it . . .  key-ARE-o-SKOOR-o.  It's good healthy Italian, you can do it . . .  key-ARE-o-SKOOR-o.  It means light and shade.  Chiaro, "light," "bright," from Latin clarus, "clear."  Chiaroscuro is the "treatment or disposition of the light and shade, or brighter and darker masses" if you're talking about painting, or, chiaroscuro is "an effect or contrast of light and shade. . .in nature," as on our hills, and those rolling Italian hills?!  And maybe your hills. 

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