Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible to paint the portrait of an entire generation?" Artist Robert Vickrey provides his own answer in his study of the four young people on the cover. None is a real person, but when one editor saw the finished picture, he remarked that the handsome youth in the foreground suggested a portrait of the artist as a young man. "Something of that might have slipped in," Vickrey allowed. As for our word portrait, it includes more faces, more facets, and greater complexities. It includes, we hope, the varied spirit of a generation that is anything but faceless. And we also...
...actually showed a quarter earth, reflecting sunlight in the dark lunar sky. It was the first photograph of earth ever taken from deep space, and it was shot by Lunar Orbiter 1 from a point only 27 miles above the surface of the moon. Clearly visible in the foreground was part of the lunar surface marked by its familiar craters. But most of the visible portion of the earth was covered by swirling white clouds that obscured the outlines of the terrestrial continents...
...death of all the killing, and decides to support the powers that be for the sake of peace and quiet. She joins the SS nursing corps, but discovers to her horror that SS nurses are better trained to kill than to cure. As her personal tragedy unfolds in the foreground, the national disaster is glimpsed in the background: bobbies accompanied by German tommy gunners, state offices staffed by arrogant blackshirts, press oppressed, radio reduced to martial music and rigged news, ghettos behind barbed wire, extermination depots scattered through England's green and pleasant land. In the end, the heroine...
...oceans of space" swelled across the background of most 19th century U.S. painting. Whether seas of grass or prairies of briny waves, the American wilderness seemed to have only distant dimensions. The way to conquer that expanse was to shrink it to human scale and bring man to the foreground of the new nation's wide horizons. Winslow Homer set out to bring the American vista into focus...
...simply, the artist has divided his composition in two: at right, the blue haze dissolves into atmospheric depth; while at left, the leafy, lemon-bearing latticework seems to push the Madonna's arm forward. The artist flips her cloak inside out to balance the push and pull between foreground and background, playing its green lining against distant hills, its blue surface against the trellis...