Word: foregrounded
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...opportunity, and every man gloriously for himself. Economics fits into this vision neatly, since California happened to provide a fine justification for capitalism by producing gold from the earth like a health food. If there were a California Ocean school of painting, it would consist of avocados in the foreground and a range of office buildings behind. Perhaps that is Reagan...
...salvage whatever continuity exists. The year's freshmen, who composed the bulk of a talent-laden squad, proved a new breed of aquawomen. Harder working and more serious about their sport, most of them should return for at least a year. Several names stand prominently in the foreground of future expectations. Butterflyers Norma Barton and Kathleen McCloskey, sprinter Janie Smith, and distance freestyler Maureen Gildea come instantly to mind...
...devices serve absolutely no function except visual delight; he thinks nothing of erecting a free standing wall simply to catch the shadow of a nearby tree. Where others speak of views, Barragán celebrates the walled garden. Says he: "A landscape that is held and framed with a proper foreground is worth double." He would like the garden to be living room "to give back to modern man the treasure of having more private life." This vision of a garden is firmly rooted in his Mexican landscape, its blazing sun, its crystalline skies; it would scarcely suit a dour climate...
...foreshortened yellow strip of the car's hood, an exultant view of sunstruck clouds--a kind of visual trumpet blast. Essentially the same compositional strategy, and the same dramatic clarity, are on view in a black-and-white photograph of an industrial wasteland by Roswell Angier: in the foreground, framed by a windshield and side-window, we see the blurred silhouette of a rearview mirror, a woman's blanketed back, a squinting Indian girl and a stop sign ornamented with a tinsel Christmas tree. In the background: a chainlike fence, grain silos, and cylinders of gasoline mounted on flatcars...
Years later, Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock were to seize on this evocative space, with its foreground frieze of totemic shapes, and develop their art upon it. Looking back in 1968, William Rubin of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art said that Miró "is the major European progenitor of abstract expressionism." Miró would never have thought of himself as a progenitor. But the idea of an undefined background space haunted him. Over the years he spread across it an increasingly personalized iconography of symbols, of figures and faces and shapes. Miró's images run back...