Against a dark background, Lady Thatcher is pictured dressed in black, wearing jewellery and a radiant smile.
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In its own contribution, the Google web search engine is putting a dark background on its homepage.
"He used local materials and used the dark background in order to quickly realise the figures, " she told a news conference.
Against that dark background, he often paints in broad, brooding strokes with an ominous cochineal crimson or a dense cobalt blue.
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One point I am glad to make is that sometimes people believe that if you don't have a dark background, the white will then be somewhat blurred.
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But against this dark background there were some bright points.
The energetic piece has black, blue and gray geometric shapes, including arrows and circles, on a dark gray background.
The whole ambience of the site reflects the TV show perfectly, with a dark blue background, cold silhouettes of the set and Anne.
He described her contours in shadow with broad strokes of dark green background, and filled in her coif as a swathe of burnt sienna.
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The pose and the play of the suspended figure against the architecture are already present, but Miss La La is a dark silhouette against a dim background of dull reds and warm browns.
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The background of the painting is mostly dark, which art historians say was probably because Caravaggio was in a hurry to complete the commission.
For more background, see my 2008 magazine article about these practices, Dark Journalism.
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