Resolutely representational, Rocca developed her own pictorial vocabulary of everyday objects and phenomenon and set them onto a map that neither castigated nor deified the role of women and mothers in the 1960s. (heikemoras.com)
Often using mere paper as a medium and a powerful pictorial vocabulary of her own invention, Nancy Spero spins tales of ferocious, heroic women. (artnews.com)
The fourth artist occupying an historical past is Noel Rockmore, a New York - born child of successful illustrators, who discovered New Orleans in the 1950s and spent most of the remaining years of his life developing an eclectic pictorial vocabulary that encompassed Surrealist - tinged views of the French Quarter and detailed portraits of jazz musicians from Preservation Hall. (ballroommarfa.org)