The sunset was a painted backdrop.
Man, standing, holding cane, painted backdrop.
Couple, the man seated, the woman standing, painted backdrop.
The supporting cast who circle Frank seem little more than figures on a painted backdrop.
The sky behind was a painted backdrop you'd normally see in an opera.
A Painted Backdrop Visiting the armory, I felt strangely dislocated as I walked toward the back door I know so well, framed by a painted backdrop instead of the actual landscape.
Pamela Howard's vivid painted backdrop shows honey-coloured rock, a vestigially monumental Buddha statue and beards floating among clouds.
Here in Britain, in literature as in life, the domestic world is subjugated, or furbished up like a painted backdrop for the reader to glimpse on occasion.
As I studied the pipes more closely, they began to dissolve before my eyes into something not quite real, like a mirage or painted backdrop.
There is a Venus Grotto right out of "Tannhäuser," with artificial rocks, a murky pool and a painted backdrop depicting Tannhäuser, a medieval knight and minstrel, being attended to by Venus and her retinue.
Anna Sui took all the right artistic references: Art Nouveau swirls on anything from sweaters to hose; Arts and Crafts jacquard knits; Cubist floral prints; and Art Deco stained glass patterns, reflecting the painted backdrop.
