Word: chiaroscuro
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Stylistically, Picasso runs the gamut from the murky chiaroscuro of Rembrandt to a spidery line that Steinberg could be proud of. Technically, the prints are a virtuoso performance in which the artist often combines various techniques-etching, aquatint, drypoint-on the same plate...
...PASTORAL. When the citizens of a depressed South Carolina town find that the savior who will revive their cotton mill is black, the stage is set for a dramatic exploration of attitudes and tensions. But Playwright Yabo Yablonsky's formalistic approach to his story keeps the action in chiaroscuro...
...revive their cotton mill is black. The town's rejection of prosperity on these terms, and the explosion that results, might have provided the occasion for a dramatic exploration of attitudes and tensions. But Playwright Yabo Yablonsky's formalistic approach to his story keeps the action in chiaroscuro...
...while lacking the variety and consistent excellence of the Knoedler's exhibit, offers a valuable look at what almost seems to be a contradiction in terms: intimate baroque painting. Virtually every sketch in the show depicts Biblical or mythological figures arranged in elaborate compositions, dramatized with sometimes exaggerated chiaroscuro and overwrought perspective. Yet if the viewer can accommodate himself to the baroque's love of allegory, he will find the oil sketches a delight...
...essence of the film, though, is not in the comic-strip chiaroscuro of its plot but in the fun Director Jaroslav Balík and his cast have with their caricatures. Rudolf Hruŝínsky turns in a burly, brachycephalic performance as the ape man, first delighted by the apparent selflessness of humans-who do not fight for food at a reception and talk constantly of altruism-then horrified at the superjungle that gives the lie to their platitudes. "People, what are you doing?" he cries as the assorted forces of evil tangle in, around, up, down and through...