Sentence examples for its pictorial from inspiring English sources

The sequence of written-up sketching-tour albums that started with David Gentleman's Britain and that went on to Paris, Italy and India pulses with a copious realism – England's coastline is a matter both of Lulworth Cove and of sewage outfall pipes – but distillation might improve it: its pictorial energies hardly keep pace with its documentary intentions.

"We recently acquired a 19th-century period frame for 'Autumn' that has utterly transformed the painting," she said, "enhancing its pictorial depth and setting it off as the American masterpiece it truly is".

The exhibition is also true to its pictorial subject.

And whatever its pictorial force, Guernica has other powers.

And the box is Persian in its pictorial allusions.

The opulently dressed and tailored production compares favorably with most Hollywood films in its pictorial quality.

And what makes the painting so extraordinary is that its inscrutable optics don't moderate its enormous pictorial generosity – I've spent hours in front of it over the years, and it never tires me.

Perhaps the most important of Goya's many lessons was that art can mirror the nightmare of life in its imagery, while mitigating it with the liberty and optimism of its very pictorial nature.

You know you're not looking at regular paint; the intermittent clusters of Chiclets suggest that it's gum, which, like many idiosyncratic materials, has its own pictorial qualities and connotations.

Even at its most pictorial, her art is abstract.

But each painting is very much its own pictorial being: vulnerable, rambunctious and fully inhabited.