Word: foregrounds
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...Periodically, small drops of water fell in the foreground while mountains of trash, rivaling the slopes at Killington, loomed in the background. Although the place was not filled to its 1,700-ton capacity, the piles upon piles of colored trash bags, dismembered lamps, decapitated dolls and faded clothing were all quite daunting in their abundance. Over in the corner where the appliances stood waiting to be picked up, mangled chrome reflected and embraced "eggshell" refrigerators, "ivory" stoves and "midnight" dishwashers. I moved closer to get a better look and up flew a dozen pigeons from behind...
...effect fools the senses. In one sequence, a virtual dancer moves among a series of multicolored, vertical poles that seem to extend toward the back of the stage. The figure looks tiny as it steps into the background, huge in the foreground. Once you're accustomed to this exaggerated virtual space, the digitized dancers disappear, leaving only the virtual poles. Then live dancers appear onstage and traverse the same space. "You stop thinking of space as being one set construction, but rather as a myriad of possibilities," says Eshkar...
...86th, apart from innumerable drawings and dinkuses. By far his best-known cover, a classic commentary on the provincialism of great cities, ended as a poster on tens of thousands of walls. It is the Manhattanite's view from New York City: Eighth and Ninth avenues wide in the foreground, a strip of Hudson River, a smaller strip of New Jersey, the rest of the U.S. missing, and in the far background some mere dots marking Los Angeles, Australia and Japan...
...dignified. Perhaps more convincing was his point that the prominent buildings in Botticelli's "The Madonna of the Eucharist" creates perspective in the painting and enables the painter to place characters in appropriate locations, thereby mixing humanism and realism Whereas before the importance of figures are placed in the foreground...
None of this is intrusive, but there is something intense about the discreet effort that has gone into it--analysis raised to poetry. It demands close looking--and gets it, from the little dog in the foreground with its back to us, transfixed by the sight. And things are complicated a little further by a second window, on the right, that lights up the mother and child and leaves a brilliant splash of gold on the brass bed warmer hanging above the mother's head, like a displaced halo...