Word: foreground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could find in town for their facial characteristics. In the Napoleonic tradition of Baron Gros and Gericault, disorder and confusion are hardly apparent. The balanced composition centers around a middle-ground bridge built by the unrealistic posture of Washington's war horse. The dog, which shares the foreground pool of water with parched troops, helps to tranquilize the hustle of hoofs...
...this infinite space! We must constantly fill up the foreground with junk so that we do not have to look in its frightening depth. What would we poor people do, if we would not always come up with some idea, like country, love, art, and religion with which we can again and again cover up that black hole. This limitless solitude in eternity. Being alone...
...When printed, the little plates emboss themselves more deeply into the paper than the ground plate, giving a perspective effect. "My favorite tool is a pair of airplane mechanic's shears," says Colescott, as he places cutouts on plates like gingerbread men on a pie tin, paradoxically creating foreground by millimeters more depth...
...arrangements of lights and darks painted by his contemporary Whistler (though Whistler called him "a sepulcher of propriety"). In his The Birthday Party, he used the blurry-faced male figure-who commissioned the work and approved of its final, unfinished look-as a foil to set off the foreground scene of a mother cutting cake for her child. At 42, he painted his expatriate cousins, the Ralph Curtises, in their Venetian palace; the painting opens volumes of casual space that would appall a European painter, such as Degas or Vuillard, used to more rigidly interlocked interiors...
...JAMES MCGARRELL, 33 is a Hoosier who has taught painting at his native Indiana University since 1959. He enjoys suggesting that the hurdle between a close foreground and a deep landscape be, as he says, "a dramatic jump between the two zones...