The objects, as well as vital raw material, carry potent visual metaphors.
Just as the Buddhas were denounced by the Taliban as "idols", the Twin Towers stood as a potent visual symbol of whatever it is the terrorists find intolerable.
Her college training shows, for she has an eye for potent visual symbols: fleshlike flowers, mythological beings, ornate cursive script, Hindu hand mudras and other cosmic signs.
Horse has a well-developed sense of potent visual imagery, seen in part through its use of three movable screens made of brown-paper squares.
An array of potent visual inspirations, grandly realized, bespeaks a creative drive that, if anything, intensified amid the distractions of the artist's churning industry.
If Messiaen's music describes humanity grappling with something larger than life, Ms. Archer's involved, intricate management of the organ's five manuals and pedal board offered a potent visual analog.
Cleanly laid out, with some pictures accompanied by excerpts from the artist's autobiography, "We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold" (Bulfinch Press, 1995), it's a potent visual experience and an important piece of American art history.
The title of a software design program is used with a measure of irony here, for this sometimes seductive exhibition intends to remind viewers that hard-edge abstractionists have been inventing potent visual experiences since the pioneer efforts of Malevich and Mondrian.
The unorthodox space, open to the public as well as students, serves as a potent visual metaphor for what is happening throughout the institution, the nation's oldest university art museum, and in a broader movement to embed campus art collections much more deeply into university curriculums.
In the history of California, transportation has served as a potent visual symbol of power, access and then, exclusion.
