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In art, chiaroscuro ( English: / kiˌɑːrəˈsk ( j) ʊəroʊ / kee-AR-ə-SKOOR-oh, -SKURE-, Italian: [ˌkjaroˈskuːro]; lit. 'light-dark') is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of ...
He played a known role in redefining painting in the 1950s and 1960s with what critics called zero-degree abstraction, but with maximal-ism in dazzling color combinations.
Color symbolism. Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology refers to the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2] The same color may have very different ...
Port with the disembarkation of Cleopatra in Tarsus (1642), by Claude Lorrain, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Light in painting fulfills several objectives, both plastic and aesthetic: on the one hand, it is a fundamental factor in the technical representation of the work, since its presence determines the vision of the projected image, as it affects certain values such as color, texture and volume ...
The brilliant iridescent colors of the peacock's tail feathers are created by structural coloration, as first noted by Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke.. Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light instead of pigments, although some structural coloration occurs in combination ...
English spelling comparison chart[edit] See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling/Words ending with "-ise" or "-ize". This table gives the accepted spellings (following government guidelines and major dictionaries). It is by no means exhaustive, but rather an overview. When two variants appear in the same cell, the one listed first is more ...
Brown. Brown colors are dark or muted shades of reds, oranges, and yellows on the RGB and CMYK color schemes. In practice, browns are created by mixing two complementary colors from the RYB color scheme (combining all three primary colors). In theory, such combinations should produce black, but produce brown because most commercially available ...
The color or name comes from the French word cerise, meaning " cherry ". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of cerise as a color name in English was in The Times of November 30, 1858. [2] This date of 1858 as the date of first use of the color name is also mentioned in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color. [3]