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light and shade1The contrast between lighter and darker areas in a painting.The last decade of the 5th century and the first of the 4th saw the next peak of Greek painting: Pliny says Apollodorus ‘opened the gates of painting’, balancing light and shade....- And yet Vermeer seems willing to set down the areas of light and shade just as they occur.
- Avison also draws analogies between music and painting: both require a mixture of light and shade, foreground, middle ground and distance.
1.1The contrast between more and less intense emphatic treatment of something: the sinfonietta players bring ample light and shade to the music...- Beautiful tone, assured phrasing, wonderful contrasts of light and shade, the players revelled in Haydn's ever-inventive musicality.
- Director David Bintley has brought north three works of contrasting light and shade, style and vintage that add up to a superbly balanced programme.
- ‘Judgement’ is an atmospheric and emotional work, musically balancing light and shade, metal riffs contrasting with delicate acoustic passages.
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