"pictorial imagination" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the ability to create mental images or visualize pictures in one's mind. It can be used in various contexts, such as describing a person's creativity, or discussing the impact of art or literature. Example sentence: "The author's vivid descriptions painted a clear image in my mind, showcasing their exceptional use of pictorial imagination."
This is Gauguin's pictorial imagination at full stretch, the show of a lifetime.
It is not just the lightning strike of his pictorial imagination – the raking light, the sideways hurtle, the pullulation of figures: the sheer visual affront.
It amounts to a history of the pictorial imagination at work in a particular time and place, and yet it takes you out of time too, into some of the most vital and exhilarating pictures ever painted.
Endowed with an art student's pictorial imagination, a journalist's sociological eye and a poet's gift for metaphor, John Updike — who died on Tuesday at 76 — was arguably this country's one true all-around man of letters.
With its intricately, almost microscopically rendered pastiches of architectural ornament, allegorical figures, photo- and digital-based imagery and even wild-style graffiti, it is the kind of work that makes you wonder, "How long did it take to do that?" Mr. Johnson's pictorial imagination, however, is more like that of an op-ed illustrator.
Matisse's pictorial imagination had expanded to the whole world: "a cosmic space in which I was no more aware of walls than a fish in the sea .As his health failed, Matisse surrounded himself with the light and foliage of Tahiti, which he had visited more than two decades before, and the Mediterranean he loved.
At least one of Descartes' followers, de la Forge, suggested that the term "idée [idea]" should be applied only to concepts in the intellect, and coined the expression "espèces corporelles [corporeal species]" to refer to the pictorial images of the imagination (Clarke, 1989).
We couldn't rightly expect Lean's stern pictorial glory, or the vital dramatic imagination of a Fred Zinnemann ("From Here to Eternity").
However, we also find in Descartes' work another conception of idea as something that is quasi-perceptual (and, indeed, pictorial) and is formed in the imagination.
Belting wondered if the tree-man's face is a self-portrait, citing the figure's "expression of irony and the slightly sideways gaze [which would] then constitute the signature of an artist who claimed a bizarre pictorial world for his own personal imagination".
The literary, pictorial, and musical elements of Mendelssohn's imagination are often merged.
