Word: chiarascuro
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...gentle but the elegance of Blackburn's style drew out of Copley the sensitivity as a colorist which characterizes all of his later work. Though Blackburn had a great influence on Copley, Copley's individuality as a painter was never obscured; the characteristic sharp contrasts of light and dark (chiarascuro effects), the bold, saturated colors, and the free, heavy impasto (paint thickness) persist throughout most of his career...
...learned to use colors to harmonize and unify his compositions and he made them responsive to each other instead of isolating them in the composition. He also abandoned much of the sharp contrast of color that earmarked his earlier work and he emerged with a more Rembrandtesque palette. His chiarascuro in this period intensified and his brush stroke became more exhuberant, bringing him into a closer affinity with the baroque Dutch masters. One of the most striking developments that emerged at this time was the perceptual depth of his painting. In works like Mrs. Humphrey Devereux he concentrated greater depths...
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