Word: foregrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...berth she dreams vaguely of adventure, of discovering what she likes to call "the real India." Outside, the real India broods enigmatically, and we see the train from another of the subcontinent's perspectives, as a tiny toy almost lost at its feet. In the shadowy foreground of these shots loom India's temples and palaces, symbols of its several cultures and religions, of a history?a maddeningly complex reality?impenetrable to the passing stranger...
...idiosyncratic viewpoint. An aerial shot, intentionally, shows as much of the helicopter he is in as the Grand Canyon below. He gives a slightly mordant dimension to the panorama of St. Louis and its Gateway Arch by shooting from East St. Louis with the littered river shore in the foreground. Throughout, Ruetz exploits the interplay of light and landscape at dawn and sunset: in a pair of striking pictures of Monument Valley, for example, and in a dramatic gatefold of Bryce Canyon, where the sunrise just burnishes the tops of the canyon's pinnacles. Dark skies and heavy clouds...
...flat abstractions and a return to representational painting have revived notions of the picture as a window onto the illusion of a three-dimensional space. Says Painter Neil Jenney, who uses oversize frames to magnify his intentions as a realist: "Illusionistic painting demands a frame. It functions as a foreground. The frame is 'here,' with you; the illusion is 'there,' in the picture...
...soothes people into working more efficiently. But all of it sounds pretty much alike, and some of it, in fact, can lull people to sleep. Now two Washington State entrepreneurs, Michael Malone and Mark Torrance, have selected different kinds of music for different kinds of situations. They call it foreground music. Malone's firm, Audio Environments of Seattle, this year expects sales of $15 million...
Throughout On the Yankee Station, Boyd's aspiring lechers either vent or invent grievances all the way from California to France and from Africa to Viet Nam. Yet however exotic the horizon, the foreground is always grungy. The sea along the Côte d'Azur is "filled with weed and feces from an untreated sewage outlet"; Cameroon is "a stinking, sweaty country," of insects and imbroglios; California beaches are littered with derelicts and bums; and just about everywhere, there are washed-out blonds in greasy cafés or easy women who turn out to be hard...