一句句子看不懂

钰剑乘风UID: 3279007

They left much ordinary experience—work and poverty, for example—out of their paintings and what they did put in was transformed by a style that had only an indirect relationship to the social realities of the world 30 they depicted. Not only were their pictures inventions rather than photographs, they were inventions in which style to some degree disrupted description.

这个从NOT ONLY开始我就读不懂了，请大家指教！

dabaoxiUID: 3236102

这些画不是照片而是创造，而且这种创造的风格在某种程度上难以描述？