Roses (1890) One of the last pictures Van Gogh painted in the asylum at Saint Remy, a cascade of brilliant blossoms over a pale green backdrop irradiated by waves of white light.
It contained four golden pillars linked by wreathes of olive branches, all awash in a sunburst of light against a pale blue backdrop.
Directed indulgently by Michael John Garcés, the play all but dissolves in a blurry wash of emotion that gradually pales against the backdrop of Mikiko Suzuki's striking set design, dominated by a wall blooming in rosebuds.
Although the year's NATO summit was held jointly by Germany and France, the German women's association football (soccer) team won the European championships for the fifth time running, and a German economic recovery was predicted, all paled against the backdrop of the elections.
– to set against a ubiquitous backdrop of pale, measured perfection.
The latter is bright with white and pale yellow walls, the backdrop for colorful race car posters.
(1994), except that this time its streamlined pale form is the backdrop for the dark lines of an old tree and its free-form branches.
She showed the small board with two clouds of bruised color floating against a backdrop of pale peach to Ann Freedman, the new president of Knoedler, New York's oldest art gallery.
The lobby's Egyptian bas-relief panels and marble floors look to Luxor, but guest rooms are more contemporary, with European mahogany side tables and tailored armchairs set against a backdrop of pale blues, greens, and cream, splashed with bold, French floral wall linen.
In some works elegant glass or metal objects and their reflections or refractions combine with pale, sometimes crisply segmented backdrops, forming spare still lifes that are also quasi-abstract meditations on optics.
