Whatever the fascinations of its inner procedures, it was hard for this listener to get past the naively pictorial surface.

His pantheism encouraged a respect for humble objects and a feeling for every inch of the pictorial surface.

So does the thinness of the paint, which prohibits any feeling that there is something behind the pictorial surface that will resolve images seemingly beyond resolution.

The ability to communicate disjunctiveness and tearing beneath a unified pictorial surface is a sign of the artist's courage and imagination.

There was little air in those landscapes, and the pictorial surface was as inviolable as it is in this show.

Her paintings are distinguished by honesty, indifference to effects and feeling for the entire pictorial surface.

It seems not so much drawn as pulled across the pictorial surface, which both hugs and allows line to write itself into infinity.

They sought to organize the pictorial surface without using traditional devices.

This play in tension between pictorial surfaces and applied materials creates complex and straightforward layers of expressive abstractions.

There is the consciousness, too, of the special devices that will allow a tiger's head to fill the pictorial surface.