Word: foregrounded
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...when, redoing Matisse's Still Life with "Dance" in 1974, Lichtenstein inserted a comic-strip blast of musical notes to give the figures something to jive to and popped a straw-bound Chianti flask (an archetypal kitsch symbol of the artist's studio) into the still life in the foreground...
There are so many shots of Paris (not simply of the view-down-the-Champs-Elyseeshey-we're-in-Paris variety) that the film's foreground and background are reversed. The city takes center stage, and the actors become simply street performers, amusing us with their starving artist routine. Set against the backdrop of "La Vie de Boheme," Kaurismaki has produced a gorgeous film about Paris...
...dreamed. You can pet a triceratops and, if you wish, examine its droppings. You can feed a vegetarian brachiosaur, whose movements are graceful, endearing. At times the beasts (animated, mostly, by the computer - sorcerers from Industrial Light & Magic) move in a hazier space than the humans in the foreground, but in the intimate scenes the dinos are utterly convincing. Spielberg loves to mix wonder with horror, and he has fun creating a living Museum of Natural Fantasy...
...Croats and Serbs, the Croats destroyed the museum. It was Dusko Zavisic who took the photographs of atrocities in Vukovar last November. He said that for days he was afraid to close his eyes because the afterimages of mutilated bodies and smashed heads would always jump back into the foreground of his mind...
...times there is something proleptically surrealistic about Guercino -- or is it only that the Surrealists picked up on some of the mannerisms Guercino shared with other Italian artists, the exaggerated perspectives, the distant figures? For whatever reasons, there is one drawing in the show -- a scarecrow large in the foreground, ominous birds, a tiny gesticulating woman -- that could have come straight out of the background of a Dali...