Pamela Howard's vivid painted backdrop shows honey-coloured rock, a vestigially monumental Buddha statue and beards floating among clouds.
The film follows a daughter (voiced by Mae Whitman) reliving memories of her late mother, Angelica (voiced by Geena Davis), as we, the viewers, are swept up in the emotional release of the vivid, painted landscapes that unfold brushstroke by brushstroke around us.
These large paintings of enormous roses, their petals overflowing with vivid paint, range from the joyful to the sickly, and are accompanied by lines from Rainer Maria Rilke's vivid poems on the subject.
The first room is brightened by a vivid painting; the rear room is nondescript.
Implausibly, in the especially vivid painting titled "Love of Winter" (1914), Central Park is distinguished by high hills that are almost mountains.
A small, vivid painting by Tomiko Pilson, who is African-American and Filipino, is a study in cultural discomfort, a vision of an artificial paradise threatened by storms.
Contrast it too with Ben Jonson, who for all his scepticism about portraiture posed for a vivid painting by Abraham van Blyenberch, today in the National Portrait Gallery.
It makes it much more interesting – and much more painful". That tension is still apparent, as the pair sit side-by-side at Birch's kitchen table, overlooked by a vivid painting of a dancer in a swirling green dress.
It appears that her friends return the favor: there's a vivid painting from the artist Marcela Gutiérrez in the bedroom and a still life of kitchen utensils by her ex-boyfriend, Devendra Banhart, over the door.
But production delays, particularly problems in getting the vivid paint colors of its new line of notebook computers right, are preventing the struggling company from growing as quickly as investors have hoped.
His graphically vivid painting, with its firm outlines, saturated colors and fill-in-the-blanks brush style, was imbued with the spirit of populist utopianism characteristic of the early years of the revolution, as are the types of figures he depicted: rural workers, soldiers, athletes and political heroes like the 19th-century Cuban independence leader José Martí.
