The lyrics made up unsettling short stories, all the more creepy for their delicate orchestral backdrop.
Made in China, the bowl is decorated with Western sailing ships under construction, probably taken from technical drawings, but with a delicate, inescapably Chinese landscape backdrop.
An "Untitled" portrait by Keïta from around 1955 shows a reclining woman, her pose not unlike the reclining nudes in European paintings, except she lies between the bold, contrasting patterns of a checkered ground cloth and a backdrop with delicate arabesques.
The empty easel next to her stands against a backdrop of delicate fern-like leaves hanging from the upper branches of a Poinciana tree.
The Ice Book, conceived and constructed by husband and wife team Davy and Kristin Mcguire, is a fascinating look at how the intricate, low-tech medium of pop-up paper art can be enhanced with light projections to produce an animated live theater performance against the backdrop of these delicate pop-up settings.
Use large, leafy tree branches to hold up more delicate flowers and provide a backdrop for bouquets without a lot of greenery.
The best of the appetizers, it spoke to the kitchen's generally expert cooking of seafood, which was also evident in a starter of unusually delicate bulbs of grilled squid against a backdrop of what was billed as risotto.
Against this easy, rolling backdrop, Keita shows off his intimate, delicate, soulful vocals.
The very air seems to shimmer, thanks to Robert Rauschenberg's vibrant pointillistic backdrop and unitards, and Morton Feldman's delicate instrumental score "Ixion," with its trilling flutes and pockets of pregnant silence.
Performed against the backdrop of a sylvan wood, this fluid, delicate duet portrays an encounter between creatures who are human and feral, mythological and alive.
