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Dramatic Chiaroscuro Self-Portrait Project

Explore the Italian technique of chiaroscuro involving high-contrast portraiture. Learn its history, artists who mastered it, and create your own dramatic self-portrait using this method. Utilize focused light to cast deep shadows and enhance the chiaroscuro effect. Use various mediums such as oil pastels, charcoal, or watercolor on white paper for your project. Enhance contrast subtly with Photoshop, if necessary, without losing the natural feel. Engage in this high-drama art project to evoke mystery and intrigue in your self-portrait.

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Dramatic Chiaroscuro Self-Portrait Project

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  1. Chiaroscuro Dramatic, High Contrast Portraits

  2. What is chiaroscuro? Chiaroscuro is an Italian word, literally meaning “light-dark”. In art the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modeling of the subjects depicted. The technique originates in the Italian Renaissance. Three-dimensional volume is suggested by the gradation of color and the division of light and shadow shapes (often called ‘shading’). Particularly popular during the Mannerism & Baroque periods but still often used today for a highly dramatic composition. Useful for creating a sense of ‘high drama’ in a work of art.

  3. Artist’s using chiaroscuro Caravaggio Rembrandt Van Honthorst De la Tour Rubens Joseph Wright of Derby Film: Stanley Kubrick

  4. Artist’s using self-portrait Rembrandt Cindy Sherman Chuck Close Frida Kahlo Albrecht Durer Van Gogh Rubens

  5. Examples of portraits Mona Lisa Da Vinci

  6. Photograph Artist unknown

  7. Chuck Close Self-portraits

  8. Cindy ShermanUntitled film stills

  9. RembrandtSelf-portraits

  10. Crucifixion of Peter Caravaggio

  11. Judith Beheading Holofernes

  12. David with the Head of Goliath

  13. St. Jerome

  14. La Vocazione di San Matteo

  15. Georges de la Tour Magdalen with the Smoking Flame

  16. BaglioneSacred & Profane Love

  17. Wright of DerbyThe Orrery

  18. Van HonthorstThe Matchmaker

  19. El GrecoAllegory, Boy Lighting Candle in Company of Ape and Fool

  20. Stanley KubrickFilm still from Barry Lyndon (many scenes were shot using only candlelight)

  21. High Contrast Self-Portrait For this project, you are to use the technique of chiaroscuro to create a highly dramatic self-portrait. You may work from a photo for this assignment. Use candlelight or any kind of strong and focused light source. Do not use overhead lighting. Point the light source directly at one side of your face so that the other side is cast in dark shadow. Using a room that is also mostly dark will help create more chiaroscuro. It should appear as though part you your face is emerging from the dark. Make it dramatic and mysterious!!! If needed, use Photoshop to increase the contrast, but do not rely too heavily on it as it will become too unnatural.

  22. Notes Use white illustration paper or illustration board. Media options: oil pastels, chalk pastels, charcoal acrylics, watercolor, colored pencil DUE:2 weeks!

  23. References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=en&safe=strict&biw=1280&bih=604&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=cindy+sherman&oq=cindy+sherman&aq=f&aqi=g7g-s1g2&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=3250l5969l0l6641l13l11l0l3l3l0l359l1827l0.3.3.2l8l0 http://www.google.com.hk/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=604&q=chuck+close&gbv=2&oq=chuck+close&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1328l4094l0l4235l15l9l0l1l1l0l625l625l5-1l1l0 http://www.gis.net/~scatt/self_portraits.html

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