Although not without its flaws, it is generally recognized as Sweerts's greatest work in terms not only of size, compositional complexity, and technical achievement, but also historical-archeological erudition.

While his precisely rendered images are representative, his compositional complexity suggests that there is always more there than meets the eye.

Music itself was heading toward a technological and compositional complexity that would leave many of us behind.

Increasingly, these shows reveal a taste for bold graphics, compositional complexity and offbeat combinations of textures.

Toward the end of his life, Tallis resisted the musical development seen in his younger contemporaries such as William Byrd, who embraced compositional complexity and adopted texts built by combining disparate biblical extracts.

Still, they convey something of the compositional complexity and coloristic richness of Wheeler's tightly wound geometries, as if grossly magnified.

His penchant for compositional complexity, cartoonish figuration and the two-timing of the abstract and the representational seem pertinent and full of possibility (Smith).

Only Mr. Ball's paintings admit more vigorously gestural elements and greater compositional complexity.

Some have said that his very last works present a new direction of compositional complexity and color juxtaposition, and are prophetic of directions that some current painters continue to pursue.

But Mr. Stella's own path as a painter led him back toward compositional complexity, lush color and gestural brushwork, everything Minimalism had rejected.