Both dramatise with breathtaking skill what is intimate and personal; they place their vulnerable people in the foreground against the background filled with recognition of the pain and damage that war causes.
Studies for "Virgin and Child" show detailed portraits and a background filled with flowers and stars.
I like to think of New York as more than just a white background filled with establishments trying to sell me things, so I was a bit taken aback by this view.
In contrast, the Yolngu of northeastern Arnhem Land paint abstractly with plain figures against a background filled with geometric grids and patterned subdivisions divided by patterned borders.
It featured Madonna in front of a greenscreen effect with her walking through a city, until walking into a surreal background, filled with red flowers, sea and fairies.
Try choosing a background of the occasion for the gift, a background related to the gift receiver's favorite color/place, a background with more plain space, or a background filled with small units such as flowers or images.
In them, icons and characters out of Buddhist lore — deities, demons, bodhisattvas and the Buddha himself — float against kaleidoscopically colorful backgrounds filled with complex Buddhist symbols, swirling landscapes and occasionally mind-bending geometric patterns.
Chris Beveridge of Mania.com, after viewing the first episode, said the series had "an older feeling to it" because of the rounder character designs reminiscent of those from the 1980s and 1990s, calling it a "great look" with a "wonderful simplicity" and backgrounds "filled with detail".
In a society already filled with the background noise of health messages -- lose weight, exercise, eat vegetables, take vitamins -- this may be the greatest challenge of all.
