chiarascuro

I love this picture of you, Brett, Hayden and Gael from a few weeks ago. It immediately made me think of the paintings that use the chiarascuro technique:


The Nativity by Gerard van Honthhorst.



And in this Fragonard painting The Lock.



And this untitled landscape painting by Jan Both.

Chiaroscuro (Italian for light-dark) is a term in art for a contrast between light and dark. The term is usually applied to bold contrasts affecting a whole composition, but is also more technically used by artists and art historians for the use of effects representing contrasts of light, not necessarily strong, to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human body.

{from wikipedia}

And yes, my name does mean light.