Word: foregrounds
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...productions of this able artist, the paintings affected other beholders like a bracing breeze. First Range of the Rockies, done in Colorado last summer, was a majestic landscape in greens and purples, given an effect of great distance by the sharp, tiny black shadows of cabins in a valley foreground. The Golden Tree, one of the largest, best-designed canvases, showed Mrs. Poor (Novelist Bessie Breuer) in a brown dress and bright green bandanna, engrossed in typescript at an open window ablaze with yellow autumn foliage...
Photographs: of a slant-walled sharecropper's shanty near Rose Bud, Ark., the rusted-away body of a Ford roadster in the foreground: "I remember when that automobile was a mighty pretty thing to ride around...
...followers could also take pleasure in Artist Jules's restrained, luminous color. Best pictures: Little Tailor, showing, through the huge foreground frame of a sewing machine, a pallid gnome bent over his stitching; Mine Baseball, in which the figures of the players are dark on a field yellow with late afternoon sunlight against a dark background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides, the Indecisive...
...example of the first or literal type would be Mr. Lougee's sketch of an abstract conception of "Pillar of Society." Here, he shows a strong, distinguished, hardened face in the foreground, with other smaller and shadier faces behind. The flight of the author's imagination has showed a shady pen in the background, indicating that the "pillar" of respectability may have made his riches through smuggling rum. The whole piece gives the impression of a sinful past to the strong central figure...
...left represents Victory and Death, the soldier in the center clasping Victory in his right arm and Death in his left. The mural on the right represents the coming of the Americans to Europe. The woman with the blue gown in the foreground symbolizes France, while the woman behind her with the broken sword represents Belgium, and the third woman, with the helm, Britain...