What is chiaroscuro~?발음듣기
What is chiaroscuro?
(bright piano music)[Beth] If you want your painting or your drawing to look realistic, to look naturalistic to look like the observable world then a technique that art historians call modeling or chiaroscuro, is critical.발음듣기
When we look at a round object in space parts of it will be more brightly illuminated and parts of it.발음듣기
Especially as they move away from us will be more in shade and the ability to render that on a two-dimensional surface on a canvas can create the illusion of volume and mass of a thing in space.발음듣기
[Beth] And here we're looking at Titian's Venus of Urbino this lovely nude reclining on a bed and we immediately get the sense that this is a three-dimensional body.발음듣기
[Beth] Or we can even follow the line of her thigh down toward the bed and see how it moves from brighter illumination into shadow.발음듣기
[Steven] Now Titian was able to achieve this with such delicacy because he is using oil paint which allows for a very find modulation of tone.발음듣기
[Beth] But we see this with Renaissance artists going back for example, to Giotto all the way through the artists of the high Renaissance the artists of the Venetian Renaissance like Titian.발음듣기
[Steven] If we looked back at earlier medieval representations in Italy we would often see line used to define the folds or the bunching of drapery.발음듣기
But here, if you look at the sheet under the figure you can see that he's used only light and shadow to create the folds and creases in that cloth.발음듣기
[Beth] And that older linear way of representing the three-dimensions of drapery is not as naturalistic as this use of modeling or chiaroscuro that we see in the Renaissance.발음듣기