Sentence examples for pictorial theme from inspiring English sources

And he did so through the "fête galante," a pictorial theme of his own invention in which elegant young people enjoy recreational ease in parklike settings.

Of such a stage the literature gave no hint, but battles of men and monsters were common in Asian art from prehistoric times down to the Achaemenid Persians, and Greek art may have adopted from the Middle East a pictorial theme that Greek literature did not share.

It's all there: history, narrative, costumes, d?r, symbols, pictorial composition, theme and variation, the principals, the corps de ballet.

Grand accomplishments in railroad building lent themselves well to pictorial themes.

In order to disseminate his pictorial themes and concept of form, he maintained his own school for draftsmen and engravers.

The work in the Chinese galleries, organized by Maxwell K. Hearn, a curator in the Asian art department, is arranged by a set of Chinese pictorial themes -- water imagery, landscapes, floral motifs -- adopted by Japanese and Korean artists.

Pictorial symbols convey minor themes or ideas.

Many games form the tableau into a descriptive or pictorial pattern, giving the game its theme and title.

Two Nudes in a Forest is emblematic of the ongoing theme in Kahlo's pictorial vocabulary of her European and Mexican roots.

But in 1972, adopting the theme of "Questioning Reality -- Pictorial Worlds Today," Mr. Szeemann broadened the concept of visual art by including works related to kitsch, advertising and science fiction.

In contrast to her Playmate pictorial, her PMOY pictorial has a tropical theme and its outdoor portion was shot at Saint Lucia.