Usage Note
Mittelgrund is the spatial zone between foreground and background in a painting. Landscape painters often place the main subject in the Mittelgrund to create visual balance. Masculine noun.
Examples
"Im Mittelgrund ist eine kleine Gruppe von Figuren zu erkennen."
Natural Translation
In the middle ground a small group of figures can be made out.
Literal Translation
In the middle-ground is a small group of figures to recognise.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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