明暗法 meaning in English

chiaroscuro
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Located along the northern silk route between central asia and metropolitan china proper , and serving as a meeting ground of " western regions " ( xiyu ) and indigenous cultural influences , dunhuang provides a continuous record of datable monuments , from the fifth century onward , showing the importation of the indian chiaroscuro style , known in chinese as aotu hua , " concave - and - convex painting , " and its eventual transformation into the indigenous chinese pictorial idiom
摘要作为丝绸之路上一个西域和本土文化的汇合地点，敦煌艺术提供了5世纪以来西域“明暗法”风格即文献上所谓“凹凸画”以及这种画法最后变成中国本土绘画笔墨风格的一个可确定时代的连续记录。