Definition of Foreground

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Foreground

On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.

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Foreground Quotations

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
Raymond Chandler

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
Brian Eno

The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
Hjalmar Schacht

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
Wislawa Szymborska

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
Chaim Potok

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
Konstantin Stanislavisky

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
Geoffrey Rush

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.
Marvin Cohen

Foreground Translations

foreground in Afrikaans is voorgrond
foreground in Dutch is voorgrond
foreground in French is premier plan
foreground in German is Vordergrund
foreground in Norwegian is forgrunn
foreground in Portuguese is primeiro plano
foreground in Spanish is primer plano

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