sentences:  Repoussoir
  
  In two-dimensional works of art, such as painting, printmaking, photography or bas-relief, repoussoir (, "pushing back") is an object along the right or left foreground that directs the viewer's eye into the composition by bracketing (framing) the edge.It became popular with Mannerist and Baroque artists, and is found frequently in Dutch seventeenth-century landscape paintings.