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Listen to an Announcement Test #108
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1. What is the professor mainly discussing?
A) The life of the artist Caravaggio
B) The history of the Italian language
C) A specific artistic technique
D) Art from the Renaissance period
2. What is a primary effect of chiaroscuro?
A) It makes paintings look flat.
B) It creates drama and a sense of volume.
C) It uses many different bright colors.
D) It was only used by Italian painters.
Professor: Today we're turning our attention to a technique that revolutionized Renaissance painting: chiaroscuro. The term comes from Italian, with 'chiaro' meaning light and 'scuro' meaning dark. In art, it refers to the use of strong contrasts between light and dark to model three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface. Artists like Caravaggio and Rembrandt were masters of this, using it to create a sense of volume and intense drama in their work. We'll look at some key examples next.
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