Sentences with phrase «body against a darker background»

Similarly, the light in «Night, Niccone Valley» behaves variously; a woman's face, close in tone to the sky behind it, gives gradual way to her lightened body against a darker background, while the table's cast shadow is strong and clear.

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Set against dark backgrounds and located somewhere not of this time, the strongly contoured bodies are depicted in awkward or sexual poses, distorted or kneeling but equally conveying a sense of vulnerability.