"pictorial style" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the visual representation and aesthetic of a piece of writing or artwork. Example: The artist's use of bold colors and clean lines showcases a distinct pictorial style in her paintings.
In Germany the graceful pictorial style did not become popular.
Mr. Rioult has moved on from the work's pictorial style.
Magazine illustration no doubt played a role in helping him formulate a pictorial style that is singularly direct and accessible.
He developed a pictorial style, which he called "dynamic cubism," of jagged compositions in bold, flat colors.
Gainsborough, arguably, was the inventor of this pictorial style, which combined elements of portraiture, landscape and genre painting.
Mr. Taylor chooses a comic-strip pictorial style: most of the choreography keeps the dancers in tension-filled profiles.
Enhanced by burning colors; outrageously tactile, rhinestone-studded surfaces; and fractured, almost Cubist perspectives, these images draw equally from 19th- and 20th-century French modernism, portrait painting, 1970s blaxploitation extravagance and an array of postwar pictorial styles.
Pictorial styles of solid form in swirling space ill suit the flat textile medium, despite tours de force by Rubens and Le Brun (whose "Battle of the Granicus," designed in 1664-65, is a grand hoot).
He comes by his multiculturalism quite naturally, and it shows: the paintings in his second solo show in New York exude a buoyant command of contrasting worlds and pictorial styles.
Schiller also seems to have inspired a predominantly pictorial piano style, and Johnson whisked us away to battlefields, Alpine landscapes and ancient Syracuse with his customary brilliance.
Their style – pictorial, vivid and emotionally immediate – pre-empts that of his operas, leading to discussion as to whether they are ultimately to be understood as devotional or dramatic.
