Patterns of asterisks and dots, wavy lines and dashes, and "pebbles" gave way to intricate images, often with patriotic and military themes.
Now, some of those combative memories have been replaced by more serene scenes, like one of a man stitching intricate images with a portable bicycle-powered sewing machine.
The placards by the pictures pushed the idea that Johnson had produced a deepening portfolio of "recovery art," although the more intricate images could not have been finished without family oversight.
Adobe also has made it easier to select and mask intricate images with improvements to its Refine Edge tool, an enhancement that is less fanciful that Puppet Warp but will certainly be much more widely used.
"There was also something poetic," Wolman writes, "… about demonstrating to the world that those coveted, almost sacred U.S. dollars were nothing more than intricate images mass-produced on fancy paper".
Rather than having potatoes as the subjects of his works, Mr. Rand used hand-cut chunks of color-stained potatoes to create intricate images of cartoonish people, stars, swirls and other figures.
The most recent pieces in the show demonstrate the influence of the intricate images created by digital technology as designers like Mr. Grcic have used advanced software to replicate their forms in everyday products.
Hemingway's work, for instance, seems to me to resemble that of Sergei Eisenstein (born a year earlier, in 1898), who put generally very brief (albeit often visually intricate) images together in such a way as to conjure, cubistically, a perspective that was many perspectives at once, and thus a sort of objective subjectivity.
In "Pribaoutki," four nonsense Russian rhymes for voice (Wallis Giunta) and chamber ensemble, and in "Four Russian Peasant Songs" for small female chorus and four horns, the costumed singers performed onstage while a troupe of puppeteers created intricate images of cats, old men, a woodcock, a partridge and even a fidgeting, crying baby.
