As Walter L. Nathan has observed, the art rejected by these three church fathers was not the «entirely new pictorial language» of a mature Christian art but the Christian art of their time, which had «borrowed freely» from the late classical pagan tradition. (religion-online.org)
There were conceptual voices, like that of Mambor, one of Tacchi's closest friends; investigations on new pictorial languages, like in Twombly, or works that employed new, unorthodox materials and media like in Kounellis, a key figure of the «Arte Povera» movement. (drosteeffectmag.com)
As a result Impressionism opened up a whole new pictorial language, and in so doing paved the way for Picasso's reinterpretation of reality - which in turn dramatically expanded our concepts of fine art. (visual-arts-cork.com)