Word: foregrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dealing with Dean Fox's treatment of race relations in his annual report) reflects a viewpoint and level of understanding for rather incomplete understanding) which plagues student efforts toward improving race relations at Harvard Many student council members and minority "leaders" who have recently been in the foreground of debate over how to improve race relations seemingly are not approaching that it deserves. It is uncanny how The Crimson editorial carries on in this tradition...
...final stop, New York City's Brooklyn Museum. With its 52 paintings, the show spans less than 20 years, from 1965 to 1982. It is a highly edited affair that says nothing about Morley's background as an abstract painter, but a great deal about his foreground as a figurative...
...this case, the foreground counts most. It is a simplification, but not a gross one, to say that Morley and the late Philip Guston were the twin unlatchers of "new figuration," at least in America. Morley was an expressionist artist when most of the current crop of neoexpressionists were still, aesthetically speaking, in diapers. His mix of mass-media cliche with intimate confession, his abrupt shifts of gear in imagery and format, and his therapeutic desire to shovel his whole life-traumas, lusts, memories, hopes-onto the canvas, struck many younger painters as a fresh model of artistic character...
Bartlett is a deft maker of marks; she understands the syntax of representation so well that hardly an inch of surface goes slack. The way she renders the dusty black recesses of a cypress, or the paddle-like leaves of a foreground plant, or the lunar speckling of artificially lit gravel-and does it in terms of relentlessly agile movements of a broad brush-is a lesson in decisiveness. It would be hard to think of more fluent paint handling in current art than the set of three views of the tiled tank, named Pool, 1983. One reads it from...
...dark suits, faces like sassy choirboys. The other four Beatles are very much alive: thin, hippie-looking, mustachioed, bedecked in bright, bizarre uniforms. Though their expressions seem subdued, their eyes glint with a new awareness tinged with a little of the old mischief. As for the grave in the foreground: it has THE BEATLES spelled out in flowers trimmed with marijuana plants...