The semiotic potential of visual framing is the separation of elements by frame-lines, pictorial framing devices, empty spaces, and so on.
The key to Munch's originality is storytelling with a potent pictorial rhetoric of rhythmic line and smoldering color.
These include: (1) an asymmetrical scattering of squares; (2) a plain diagram with no squares canceled and the ends of words marked simply by a thick line; (3) pictorial designs, either in outline containing the diagram or in line inside the diagram, or a combination of both; and (4) diagramless puzzles, with no squares cancelled and no word ends marked.
This could be cryptic, such as a poem line, or pictorial, etc. Stand back and view your map.
When Matisse is at his best, the exquisite frictions of his color, his line, and his pictorial invention — licks of a cat's tongue — overwhelm perception, at which point enjoyment sputters into awe.
Collagists turned pictorial space inside out, casting lines and colors as material facts, on a par with ticket stubs and rope, rather than as ciphers of the imagination.
Different individual curve lines in the pictorial graph represent separate models of the swimmer's hand.
In the graphic arts the line subordinates all other pictorial elements form, texture, space, and colour to its own decorative effect.
At first she seems to float in deep pictorial space that lacks a horizon line or other visual cue to indicate perspectival relationships.
The thick black felt-tip line divagated across the pictorial space yet always arrived at precisely the right place, nailing to a fixed point one or other of life's great issues: sex and death, right or wrong.
