Sentence examples for background paintings from inspiring English sources

So the pressure was on to finish background paintings for an exhibition on poison — a tropical rain forest like one in Colombia.

According to the museum's Web site, the sprucing up involved designers, artists, taxidermists and conservators who "worked to recolor faded fur, dust delicate leaves and selectively restore the background paintings".

Many of the background paintings, by James Perry Wilson, Belmore Browne and others, are considered masterpieces in their own right, capturing the sweep and subtle lighting of a desert valley at sunset, for instance, or the chaos of an overgrown swamp.

What's known as cinematic realism, indeed some of its artistic zeniths, are achieved by means of background paintings, matte paintings, miniatures, rear-screen projections, and double exposures; meanwhile, the very essence of magical cinema is the mere filming, documentary-style, of the magician's practice of sleight-of-hand.

The exhibition features rarely seen original concept drawings, character illustrations, storyboards, background paintings, sculptural models, props and digital stills.

Five snapshots, each illustrated with life-sized mannequins and background paintings, trace the life of a young Burmese boy.

One of these had elaborate paintings on the outer walls showing human figures against a scrollwork background, painted in yellow, black, pink and red.

A quiet, peace-loving hobbit, Bilbo is happily installed in his cosy subterranean home in the Shires, an idyllic corner of Merrie England inhabited by contented peasants who look like people in the background of paintings by Fragonard or Constable.

With images of sci-fi rockets set to launch in the background, the paintings are meant to represent Mr. Woodruff's imagining of a better place than life on earth.

Closeups of performers, all of them singing, zoom in and out against chaotically colorful backgrounds — video paintings.

Characterized by rich pigments on reflective, gold-leaf backgrounds, these paintings are thought to have enhanced the poor illumination in the massive rooms of these castles.