take one photograph of a person, object, or scene with a distracting background. Then, photograph the same subject, but compose the photograph so that you've reduced the distracting background

Have your focus obviously in the front if not make it to be where it is the main subject in the photo with each then do it without the background and just put it in the center like a centerpiece.

The greatest pyramids were built in the middle kingdom

Because most artists loved the way that their men or women that they were to paint/sculpture just the way that they had when they sat and posed and they thought that it looked more i guess