back cloth
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In the Renaissance, with a new understanding of perspective, set design became an art form: suddenly, stage sets had depth, distance, and multiple illusions, exhibited on painted backcloths and boards.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2016
These are small masterpieces of lucidity and concision, with complex political backcloths effortlessly painted in and characters as diverse as Mao Zedong and General Douglas MacArthur brought sharply into focus.
From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2013
Someone should have got rid of the crinkles in the backcloths.
From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2013
Up close backstage, the effect was riveting, when Erdem , as he is known, singled out his different surface backcloths as velvet, rubberized raincoat material, or even garter elastic.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2011
The framework of the décor was composed exclusively of backcloths, with just a few details of a Russian peasant cottage interior, and both coloring and lighting were very successful.
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
