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  2. Outline of the visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Space includes the background, foreground and middle ground, and refers to the distances or area(s) around, between, and within things. Texture – the way a three-dimensional work actually feels when touched, or the visual "feel" of a two-dimensional work

  3. Middle Ground - Wikipedia

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    Middle ground (also: middle-ground or middleground), an artistic space, located between background and foreground; Middleground (1947–1972), American Thoroughbred racehorse; Golden mean (philosophy), a desirable "middle ground" between two extremes. Argument to moderation, a logical fallacy that states that the "middle ground" is always correct

  4. The Poppy Field near Argenteuil - Wikipedia

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    In the foreground is a woman with a parasol and straw hat, accompanied by a child. In the middle ground, we see a couple similar to the first. The background, at the far end of the field, consists of a row of trees, with a house visible. The two mother-child couples mark out an oblique structuring the painting.

  5. Ground (art) - Wikipedia

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    A detail of a self-portrait by Rembrandt.Three scratches in the center reveal the reddish ground. In visual arts, the ground (sometimes called a primer) is a prepared surface that covers the support of the picture (e.g., a canvas or a panel) and underlies the actual painting (the colors are overlaid onto the ground).

  6. Foreground and background - Wikipedia

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    Figure–ground (perception), a humans' ability to separate foreground from background in visual images; Foreground-background, a scheduling algorithm that is used to control execution of multiple processes on a single processor; Foreground-background segmentation, a method for studying change blindness using photographs with distinct ...

  7. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Composition can apply to any work of art, from music through writing and into photography, that is arranged using conscious thought. In the visual arts, composition is often used interchangeably with various terms such as design, form, visual ordering, or formal structure, depending on the context.

  8. Paris Street; Rainy Day - Wikipedia

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    The foreground is in focus, but slightly smudged; the middle ground has sharp, clear edges and well defined subjects, and the background fades into the distance, becoming more and more blurry the farther back the eye travels. He makes the middle ground section more clear, mimicking the effect of a camera.

  9. The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and Muses - Wikipedia

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    The landscape is divided into four main horizontal panels, the foreground occupied by the muses and interspersed with flowers and greenery, the middle ground in which a river flows and the background made up of pale coloured mountains that surround the rest of the scene. [3]