word painting

Across the way, “Evil” — a 1973 word-painting related to Ruscha’s series on palindromes, words that read the same backward and forward — is spelled out in dark, coagulated blood that was drawn from the artist’s veins.

Instead, Conan Doyle emphasizes leisurely word-painting and antiquated period diction.

Yet for all of Piau’s stylish word-painting, she never fussed with the vocal line and approached the texts with admirable directness.

They make expert use of the word-painting techniques of the Renaissance madrigal and Baroque opera.

But the result was a disappointing literalism that insisted on visualizing Shakespeare’s word-painting.