Word: foregrounds
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...Trilogy” of records—“On the Beach,” “Time Fades Away,” and “Tonight’s the Night,”—in which remorse and a sense of loss foreground every track. Not that “Prairie” lacks substance or depth...
...viewer is “immediately drawn to the pearl earring” in the angel’s ear. But that precise white dot is mirrored by the energetic but inexplicable white splotches of paint on and around the figure of Mary. In the foreground, some of the ruffles on the furniture are meticulously shaded, while an entire ottoman is only half-painted. Part of the white chair has been painted over the dramatic scarlet fabric that lies on it. In contrast, the door behind the piano is sharply outlined. Wolohojian emphasizes that these inconsistencies were deliberate not careless...
Muralist Sol Levenson has just painted a woman bending over to pick apples. One minute she is in the foreground and the next, her apple-picking days are over. Levenson decides to white her out of the picture. "She was getting all the attention. In a mural, there must be interest all over," he explains. "Besides, I'm so happy making a mistake. Here's a chance to make it better. When you get so old that you don't know you're making mistakes, then it's time to worry...
...moments it recalls the whispered seduction of Marlene Dietrich, then eases up the range to Kate Bush or some operatic diva, and on occasion even morphs completely into synthesizer effect. "Ultimately the voice is an instrument, so you can use it as a texture or put it into the foreground and make it into something distinct," she says. The Goldfrapp sound has undoubtedly inspired some contemporary pop starlets like Rachel Stevens and some of Kylie Minogue's more recent offerings, even if critics can't always agree how to classify it. "I remember everyone said, 'Oh, she sounds like...
...able to isolate a motif in action, as though the watercolor were a pseudo photograph. This sometimes looks false, but it was exactly the kind of falsity that appealed to popular taste, and Homer's watercolors of leaping trout and thrashing bass, the Big Fish dominating the foreground, are a curious conjunction of the merely illustrative and the frenetically decorative. In his sober moods he was rarely off-key. His Adirondack paintings have the astringent completeness of the Michigan woods in early Hemingway. Perhaps no painting has ever conveyed a hunter's anxiety better than Hound and Hunter, with...