Word: foregrounded
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...that: the Spanish conquistadors are presented as brutes, one flinging a baby from the temple top, another tearing loot from a corpse; and Leutze's intent to provoke pity for the Aztecs is summed up in an upside-down torch, nearly out, which lies on the steps in the foreground, an adaptation of the classic funerary image of the reversed torch of extinguished genius. Even mediocre artists like Leutze, it seems, can sometimes be a little more complex than their interpreters might wish...
...Alfred Jarry's proto-Surrealist comedy, Ubu Roi. Add to that a dirty children's rhyme he remembered from his school days, which in English would have been a limerick; it concerned an elephant in Sumatra that tried to, well, connect with its grandmother. The naked woman in the foreground foreshadows the title of Ernst's great collage-narrative of 1929, La Femme 100 Tetes, or The Hundred- Headless Woman. She languidly beckons the dumb pachyderm to further erotic fiascoes...
...surrounding elements. Instead, many explore the distorting effect that Royal's hyper-focus has upon the sense of space. In many of these images, the dimensions of the space are unclear because the background which we would normally expect to see blurred is as detailed and precise as the foreground...
...case, I stand by the remarks I made, as they have allowed me to bring these issues to the foreground, and to open the topic up for debate. I encourage anyone who was made uncomfortable by my remarks at the UC Comedy Night to consider my arguments and open their minds...
Offstage, the distant thunder of great events. In the background, an exotic city, sleepless, decadent and aswarm with corrupt and conniving characters. In the foreground, a displaced American male hides his latent idealism under a shady manner, and a displaced European woman hides her latent sexuality under the guise of loyalty to her husband and the outlawed political cause to which he has made a passionate and dangerous commitment...