The subject matter is comparatively slight, but the formal structure points toward the possibility of a more richly allusive visual poetry.
Here he is aided immeasurably by the RZA (pronounced RIZZ-ah), one of the hip-hop masterminds behind the Wu-Tang Clan, whose dreamy, collagist approach to sound nicely mirrors Mr. Jarmusch's cool, allusive visual style.
There's a certain degree of truth in this, but I'd argue the sort of images literature trades in are more allusive than visual ones - the figuration and the thing figured bleeding into one another, except in what I term "constructed metaphors", the kinds preceded by "as if", "like" and other signposts.
The visuals are tellingly allusive.
The solemnity derives from Ms. Mirra's adaptation of earlier art: like others before her (see Maya Lin's Vietnam memorial or Rachel Whiteread's work), she uses Minimalism for more or less explicitly memorial purposes, as a visual language of compressed, allusive emotion.
Additionally, the memoir derives its structure from allusions to various works of literature, Greek myth and visual arts; the events of Bechdel's family life during her childhood and adolescence are presented through this allusive lens.
Weiner, a pioneer of language-based art, appears in finest fettle in his first U.S. retrospective: intelligent, provocative, allusive, and, for all his insistence on the word, vitally engaged with visual pleasure.
"Angelology" is richly allusive and vividly staged, with widescreen-ready visuals, a dewy but adaptable heroine and a dashingly cruel villain.
Walcott's densely allusive poetry has always shown, as well as an attachment to his home in the Caribbean, a love for the mores and meters of the Classics — and a deeply visual approach.
Nevertheless, they are richly allusive.
"Allusive Form: Painting as Idea".
