Word: backgrounder
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...which he found did not do justice to the verse. While Elkies stresses that for him creating music is more like composing poetry than making quantitative discoveries in mathematics, he admits that his type of composing has “a mathematical flavor” and supposes that his background in math predisposes him “to such procedures...
...inserts the serpentine curve of a highway encroaching on the majestic landscape. Elizabeth Peyton’s “Queen Elizabeth II with Her Dogs at Balmoral” (2002) is a small light-hearted scene painted in large, broad strokes and dominated by an acid, neon green background...
...dirtied urban avenue. Despite the squalor of the surroundings, their impish smiles and doubled-over laughter show that the activity is more of a game than a chore. In a careful composition, the children’s clothes pick up colors in the graffiti and painted residences in the background, suggesting a unity with their surroundings and an ability to revel even in less-than-pristine circumstances...
...head of the drinks vendor who sits on his haunches and stares blankly across the street, and Levitt compels us to imagine the appearance of the unseen woman—or man—whose snow cone-holding hand is all that appears. The print depicts foreground and background people half obscured by a lamp post and a telephone booth, and so, as we wonder, we also revel in the ingenious spontaneity of seemingly unconscious compositions...
Matamoros said he thought that the quality of pizza and service at the old Tommy’s kept people away—not the ethnic background of the owner, as Iftikhar had feared...