Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warning the President and his advisers not to be fooled by "funny facts and figures," the Forum printed a Resettlement Administration publicity photograph of parched and cracking soil, a dusty skyline, a steer's skull lying in the foreground. The picture was taken by the RA's able Cameraman Arthur Rothstein and had been widely used by the U. S. Press as a sample of the drought in the Dakotas. Of this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even...
...military coup d'etat by Nicaragua's "strong man", General Somoza, brings the problem of Latin American policy again into the foreground. With the Pan-American Congress scheduled for the near future, with $13,000,000 investments and a ninety-year option on the Nicaragua canal route at stake, the delicate problem of recognition becomes of paramount interest, particularly since under the Central American treaty of peace and amity of 1923 we are unable to recognize a ruler who comes to power by a coup d'etat...
...tapestry God is shown stretching out his hands in blessing, while all about Him are many angels. The foreground and background are filled with foliage and flowers so typical of the millefleur tapestries of the same period...
...company of this sort, with economic considerations always in the foreground, necessarily there must be the problem of what precisely it wants to accomplish. Whether grace is their goal, or technique, or a compromise, still the goal must be decide upon. One has the feeling that the Hollywood Ballet has not yet settled this question. That is until their final number, "Hollywood", is given. Then one sees that what they really aim for is such a goal as this. With Ferde Grofe's solidly written music as a background, this dance, a satire on motion pictures, is something that...
...like him. Surf, sky and rocks are his only subjects. These he knows so well that he no longer bothers to leave his Provincetown, Mass, studio to look at them. However, all Waugh seascapes are not alike. Ante Meridian shows a wave breaking against a cliff in the right foreground. Post Meridian had waves breaking on rocks in the centre foreground. Tropic Seas had the rocks in the distance. In Morning Tide, Mrs. Logan's favorite in Chicago the rocks are on the left. Mr. Waugh took his award with becoming modesty last week. Other artists who have...