Word: foregrounded
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...allows his colors to perform in far more complex settings. In 1960, he began a series of paintings that used only two colors-a "hot" one and a "cool" one. These he placed in patterns made up of almost identical little shapes that moved from background to foreground and vice versa according to how he colored them...
...loves the swirling imbalance of the baroque, its angular geometry and its chiaroscuro effects. Certain of his street scenes would do credit to a landscape painter: complex diagonals draw the eye into the background. But the dramatic action of many of these scenes centers in the foreground so that the viewer must decided what to concentrate on: the drama or the beautiful, but extraneous street scene...
...master of the group portrait. With him, all the contrived clumsiness of his predecessors vanished. His Banquet of Officers of the St. Joris-Doelen is so composed that while each man retains his individuality, he is linked by gesture and expression to the whole. The seated figure in the foreground provides a dash of humor: he holds his glass upside down to show he is out of wine. In 1621 a city ordinance ruled that these banquets should not last more than three or four days. Previously, they tended to go on for a week...
...water still at boiling point but gave his textured waves a solidity that adds weight and menace to their churnings. In Morning Scene, painted eleven years later, Marin broke up the scene with bold black lines that are almost calligraphic. The mountains become a series of Ms; the harsh foreground is a powerful scribble. The right angle poised in the sky, while extending the mountainous skyline, also does a good deal more. It could symbolize a sail, a rainbow, or even the basic order lying beneath nature's turbulent surface. It is the first thing that catches...
...background is the southwestern American desert and a training base for fighter pilots and gunners. In the foreground is a section of the base hospital called Ward 7, known to the top brass as Sunnybrook Farm and to its inmates as Psycho Beach. There Captain Josiah J. Newman, M.D., fights his war against "everything from tics to combat fatigue," depending chiefly on his own central intelligence and flak-juice (Pentothal Sodium) as his principal weapons...