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- 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 craftsmanshiprepoussoir[clarification needed], shadow, reflection and understated lighting – giving...
- pottery Regionalism Renaissance art Renaissance in the Low Countries Repoussoir Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes Retablo Reverse gl**** painting...
- 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...
- of Smeerenburg in 1639. Compositional formulae using elements like the repoussoir were evolved which remain influential in modern photography and painting...
- "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...
- Space Magritte has introduced several of these types of mani****tion. The repoussoir effect of the amorphic grey structure surrounding the figures frames the...
- 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...