28 The imagery must be translated into «the new
picture language of the technical world,» 29 but it is a story that is to be taken seriously.
The inescapable necessity of thinking
in picture language derived from the world of space and time leaves us with exactly the same question — has the invisible ever been made visible, and if so, where?
The idea of the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven is not
just picture language, any more than the doctrine of Christ's pre-existence.
By sampling, which consists in combining different elements freely, he created his
own picture language and invigorated painting.
PLATO and the developers working with it are responsible for many modern concepts like chat rooms, instant messaging, email, ASCII art (formally known
as picture languages,) and message boards in their various forms.
While acknowledging that much of the depiction of the devil and his activity in the New Testament is in the form of myth or
picture language, we can not deny the supernatural reality which is the focus of the myth.
Abstract forms are especially susceptible to discursivity or denotation, from traditional church «
picture language» to the hermeticism deciphered by popular Jungian interpretations of Adolf Gottlieb and Jackson Pollock.
It can not be mitigated by rejecting those elements alien to our way of thinking on the ground that they are simply
picture language, and by replacing them with a different picture language of our own.
In 1967 Bridget Riley began changing
her picture language and started to use color.