These works show the Italian influence of Caravaggio in their realism and refined chiaroscuro effect, also seen in works such as Lingelbach's, " A mounteback and other figures before a locanda with a capriccio view of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome ", ( Royal Collection ).
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The upper part has nine narrative panels showing scenes from the New Testament, carved in white marble with a chiaroscuro effect and separated by figures of prophets : the Annunciation, the Massacre of the Innocents, the Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, the Flight into Egypt, the Crucifixion, and two panels of the Last Judgement.
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The simplified block-style and dramatic chiaroscuro effects of these illustrations make them resemble woodcuts rather than pen and ink drawings ( misleading some collectors into thinking the books are just reissues of hand-printed original editions ) and there are many affinities with the visual-symbolic language of propaganda art, although Wragg's agenda is more generalised.
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His work has been compared to the " gaudily tragic " Neue Sachlichkeit expressionist art of the Weimar era, with portraits of " figures whose faces seem to express the unbearable heaviness of a past trapped behind their eyes, " creating images of faces that are " feral, yet knowing . " His works rely heavily on chiaroscuro effect, with the negative space of the blackened backgrounds becoming presences in their own right.
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In contrast to the earlier phase of Bengali cinema mostly dominated by the dramatised style of the New Theaters'films ( in the 1940s ), the Uttam-Suchitra films were marked by a more naturalistic acting style, a bit dramatic-stylized, soft-focus black-and-white cinematography with chiaroscuro effects, and a more popular and modern form of music that broke away more decisively from earlier dependence on classical types.
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Her series, " Black Mirror " ( 2010 ), includes portraits of women, " their profiles drawn in close-up in coloured pencil, forming a chiaroscuro effect on the sheets of black paper . " The " polished nocturnal portraits " are made from memory, and according to Majoli, " The otherworldly half-image that is reflected by black mirror coincides with both the internal state of desire and a crisis in belief in representational painting.
