Word: foregrounds
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...chair; for the rest, Fra Angelico's painting has been awakened by the dawning Renaissance. With rows of Brunelleschian columns, he achieves perspective, relegating symbolism to the background, where the distant figures of Adam and Eve state the origin of man's sin. In the foreground, is a rich, verdant carpet, carefully observed from nature and painted with the same joyful lyricism that St. Francis of Assisi had seen more than two centuries before in the world about...
...circumscribed foreground space, there is a cloistral hush that is completely monastic. The half-genuflecting angel, splendid with great, backswept polychrome wings and raised hand, recites the sentence inscribed in gold from St. Luke: "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee." The Virgin, in a gesture of untroubled acceptance, replies simply: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me according to thy word...
...this process were generally simple in character, suited to the medieval tastes of the artists. Temptation against Faith, an anonymous woodcut done in 1475 illustrates the typically stiff and expressionless style. A later, 16th century work, the Great Tournament, is wondrously lacking in perspective. The figures in the foreground display neither emphasis nor discrimination...
...Social Realist Ben Shahn, 57, the obvious fact was that today abstract artists and their public are poles apart. Said Shahn: "The great subject of Western Art has always been the crucifixion. At times painters have focused on the landscape behind, at times on the still life in the foreground, but the great subject must be there. Unfortunately, from time to time a generation of painters has to be sacrificed while artists re-explore the potentialities of their tools. This seems to be such a generation...
...broadcasting booth in the foreground of this picture was empty at 5 p.m. yesterday. It will almost certainly still be empty at 2 p.m. today--the time when WHRB begins its Cornell game broadcast from the back row of the Stadium press...