Sentences with phrase «pictorial elaboration»

We found again and again that, of set purpose it would seem, all pictorial elaboration is lacking and that all mysteries are left discreetly veiled.

It makes no difference that the New Testament avoids all pictorial elaboration.

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Elaborations of shape and excavations of depth animate her pictorial intelligence in ways that are at once playful and earnest.

Colin B. Bailey, Director of the Morgan Library & Museum, traces Boucher's process in the elaboration of his masterpiece, examines the tradition of marine mythologies from Raphael to Poussin and beyond, and considers some of the textual and pictorial sources which may have inspired the painter.

His visual accounts are sparked by vivid elaborations on the manifold ways that color and form can be applied to manipulate the pictorial plane.