When the reflective material was applied to the backdrop in 100 feet strips, however, variations at the seams of the strips led to obvious visual artifacts, a problem that was solved by tearing the material into smaller chunks and applying them in a random "camouflage" pattern on the backdrop.
In "Miscanthus" (1933), reedlike stems, as taut and straight or elegantly scribbled as pen strokes, stand up before mountain ranges so pale and delicate that they function as tonal washes applied to a vertical backdrop.
In another Muriel Maxwell, later a Vogue editor, poses behind futuristic white sunglasses against a dark blue backdrop applying a perfect smear of red lipstick.
Robert Rauschenberg, his art director at that time, gave him a Pointillist backdrop — all dots, applied by Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns with cans of Day-Glo spray paint and a stencil.
These bits and pieces of objects, punctuated by a painted eyeball here, a peacock feather there, are laboriously integrated into a fluid backdrop of color applied by brush or aerosol.
"I just had to have this photo exist in the real world so I could look at it forever". As the brand manager for the Brooklyn-based chocolatier Raaka, Mullan was already in the habit of shooting products against pastel-colored backdrops, and he applied the same treatment to his rare and beloved apples over the next year or so.
He had characters look directly into the camera, pioneered the use of camera ramping, and applied very artificial lighting and phoney-looking backdrops.
Against the backdrop of abundant physical therapy supply, financial incentives as applied in Switzerland (nine-session ceiling, higher reimbursement for new treatments) did not restrict utilization.
Here, a video of the three-day installation reveals him applying a wheat-paste backdrop of Peter Bruegel's "The Triumph of Death," then painting the rooster on top.
It illustrates several of the approaches that can be applied when analysing policy-making in general, and is included here as a backdrop to the accounts, immediately following this one, specifically on research utilisation in policy-making.
