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One of the more remarkable features of Velázquez’s stunning pictorial achievement is that he chose to paint Mariana’s portrait over one of many he had already executed of her husband.

Last year, the King hailed new portraits of the Windrush generation, including Mr Gardner, as pictorial records of a "very special" group of people.

They blended and transformed pictorial conventions, introduced new artistic traditions, and shaped the visual tastes of diverse audiences, ranging from scholars to tourists.

The video’s extreme slow-motion creates anticipation in a viewer, while the pictorial movement yields a desire to leisurely examine the image in a manner more akin to looking at paintings than at traditional camerawork.

Sometimes the pictorial setting is layered into the exhibition’s physical installation.