In works such as the large The Last Judgment (1440 45) and The Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1430 32), for example, the human figures receding toward the rear themselves create a feeling of space similar to that in the paintings of Angelico's great Florentine contemporary Masaccio.
The barman's shirt had originally been white, but Ofili had painted it black, to make the figure recede.
The supply closet is a confessional booth and a meditation chamber, to which this peculiar figure recedes to concentrate on upending the order of the world.
She walks back home as the man's figure recedes, dispassionately narrating the mundane psychosis familiar to anyone who has ever spent too much time alone.
The lone figure receding into the icy depths of the forest perfectly matches Shepard's story, but his descriptions of the woods, survival, ammo, and traps had me thinking of other hunting imagery as well.
Nurit Avesar is known for compositions that strikingly juxtapose pattern and portrait, yet lately the figures have receded in favor of the abstract elements -- speaking to the archetypal emotions animating their stories.
The minority-business program tripled the percentage of state contracts to minorities during Bush's first term, but since he left office, figures have receded to pre-Bush levels, reports show.
Sat in his dark suit, the wiry figure with receding hair looks, as do many of the cast, a little like a gangster in a Guy Ritchie movie.
Or something more ambiguous and lenient, a glumly comic vision of an opera buffa figure who has receded into history, long since replaced by Trump and Weinstein as key players of nastiness and misogyny?
