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Definition
art: a painting technique that skillfully contrasts light and shadow
- It seemed to him that he could see the yellow day opening peacefully on before him, like a corridor, an arras, into a still chiaroscuro without urgency.Chapter 5 (58% in)
- It was hot; heat quivered up from the asphalt, giving to the familiar buildings about the square a nimbus quality, a quality of living and palpitant chiaroscuro.Chapter 13 (73% in)
There are no more uses of "chiaroscuro" in Light in August.
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