Word: backgrounds
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...both the Virgin of the Star and the panel combining the Annunciation and Coming of the Magi (see color pages), which Fra Angelico painted for a reliquary for the convent of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, he relied on rich gold, Byzantine in its richness, for a background. Fra Angelico's own contributions were the new, soft-flowing harmonies of the robes, the fresh coloring which juxtaposed azure against deepest blue, pink against red to create a glowing world of weightless form and radiant, shadowiess color...
...trace of the early miniature painter remains in the loving care given the rich golden tapestry of the Virgin's chair; for the rest, Fra Angelico's painting has been awakened by the dawning Renaissance. With rows of Brunelleschian columns, he achieves perspective, relegating symbolism to the background, where the distant figures of Adam and Eve state the origin of man's sin. In the foreground, is a rich, verdant carpet, carefully observed from nature and painted with the same joyful lyricism that St. Francis of Assisi had seen more than two centuries before in the world...
...need to eliminate background noise. Kresge is not menaced by anything quite so formidable as the subway that runs near Carnegie Hall, but M.I.T.'s city campus presented problems. Kresge is insulated by outer glass walls, curved entrance ways, rubber stripping on doors...
...note (done by splicing tapes) to achieve a spirited effect, while Perry Como (in a reissue) transforms God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen into a queasy dirge. The curtain on Victor's celebration is rung down by Christmas, Christmas, with chorus, chimes and strings uniting to provide a festive background while the bass voice of George Beverly Shea repeats "Chrishmush, Chrishmush...
Sean O'Casey is an old man now, living alone England and far from Dublin, the city of his birth. His youth there was a time of violent action, set against the background of the bloody Irish up-risings of the first quarter of the 20th century. Most of his plays celebrate the events of that period and, in 1942, he once more returned vicariously to write a play about a Dublin strike that took place in 1913. But this play, Red Roses for Me, is less a drama than a ceremony of remembrance...