Sentences with phrase «poetic pictorial compositions»

While the exhibition at the Alexandre Gallery is hardy the Dodd retrospective we needed, it does have the great virtue of giving us a concentrated account of one of the artist's most inspired inventions: the complex, highly poetic pictorial compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light to be seen in and around the windows and doorways of old Maine houses.

Noting her «complex, highly poetic pictorial compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light» around «windows and doorways,» our late colleague Hilton Kramer rightly championed Dodd as among the «class of highly accomplished American painters whose work has been consistently rejected by the New York museum establishment.»