Sentences with phrase «established figurative imagery»

For Hoyland, as for Newman (and Rothko), it was necessary for paintings to be self - sufficient machines, constructed to convey a powerful charge of visual, mental and emotional energy without recourse to any historically established figurative imagery.

Gooding writes: «For Hoyland, it was necessary for paintings to be self - sufficient machines, constructed to convey a powerful charge of visual, mental and emotional energy without recourse to any historically established figurative imagery.