works of art, such as painting, printmaking, photography or bas-relief, repoussoir (French: [ʁəpuswaʁ], pushing back) is an object along the right or left...

the viewer's focus on the framed object(s). It can also be used as a repoussoir, to direct attention back into the scene. It can add depth to an image...

Fisher's cinematography, however, has been praised for its craftsmanship — repoussoir[clarification needed], shadow, reflection and understated lighting — giving...

1810, to much controversy and criticism. The composition notably lacks a repoussoir—a framing device that leads the viewer's gaze into the image. Rather,...

of the main victim, peeping fearfully towards the soldiers, acts as a repoussoir at the back of the central group. Without distracting from the intensity...

"Législatives: Jean-Luc Mélenchon à Matignon? La gauche rejette l'idée, 'c'est un repoussoir'" [Legislative: Jean-Luc Mélenchon at Matignon? The left rejects the idea...

of Smeerenburg in 1639. Compositional formulae using elements like the repoussoir were evolved which remain influential in modern photography and painting...

the common use of curtains to protect paintings. Even more common, the repoussoir appears in 25, with Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, one of three...

well-known self-portrait by Rubens. The tapestry and the chair, both repoussoirs, lead the viewer into the painting. As in The Allegory of Faith, the...

pottery Regionalism Renaissance art Renaissance in the Low Countries Repoussoir Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes Retablo Reverse glass painting...

foreground to increase the depth of field of the overall painting is called repoussoir. Caravaggio often used this technique, and Vermeer probably learned it...

Space Magritte has introduced several of these types of manipulation. The repoussoir effect of the amorphic grey structure surrounding the figures frames the...

1965 : Miguel Manara (O.V. de L Milosz), Comédie de la Loire 1967 : Le repoussoir (Rafael Alberti), Comédie de la Loire 1967 : The Chairs (Ionesco), Comédie...

a bright grey strip at the bottom of the painting. The hand acts as a repoussoir that provides the illusion that the medallion is in another level within...

49–70. PDF. Reymond, Rhonda L. "Looking In: Albert A. Smith's Use of 'Repoussoir' in Cover Illustrations for the Crisis and Opportunity". American Periodicals...

directly in the scene, as if airborne or even in the water. The lack of a repoussoir aids this effect. Before the advent of modern photography, which made...

ice sometimes form profiles of human-like faces, most pronounced in the repoussoir of ice on the left. As described by Carr, there are also intentional "vague...

the foreground is well modeled in the light, with neither gimmick nor repoussoir." Although the painting received a considerable amount of approval from...

mid-1640s often feature a diagonal slope of land, a tree which functions as a repoussoir, and figures accompanied by horses. Over the next thirty years he developed...

Siq, is even closer to the description in the novel. Macartney used a repoussoir to create depth on all covers, but never to such effect as here. Thirteen...

self-portraiture for van Eyck. As in the van Eyck, the figures act as examples of repoussoir, in that they draw our attention to the picture's underlying theme – the...

composition draws the viewer's gaze into the background by having two large repoussoir elements at each side, where one is very close at hand, and the other...

repoussoir style of painted landscapes as a matter of taste. The picturesque Pembroke Castle, South Wales, 1854, with Romantic ruins The repoussoir Monastery...

painted wooded landscapes populated with small figures, bracketed by strong repoussoir trees. As was common in Antwerp artist circles in the 17th century Gijsbrecht...

subjects within a Mannerist three-color, schematic landscape bracketed by repoussoir trees. However, during the 1620s and 1630s, his landscapes become increasingly...

the three-colour world landscape in which the figures are bracketed by repoussoir trees. His palette at the time exaggerated the brown foreground and the...

Site. Reymond, Rhonda L. (2010). "Looking in: Albert A. Smith's Use of "Repoussoir" in Cover Illustrations for the "Crisis" and "Opportunity"". American...