Basic Graphics Programming Language

I know this question comes up a lot, and I'm sorry, but I haven't found
it asked pertaining my specific circumstances, yet:

I'm looking for a programming language/graphics library with which to
draw at the most basic imaginable level -- I just want to be able to
set the colour (prefereably at some depth) of individual pixels. I
don't need any features beyond basic, Turing-complete logic, and a
makeThisPixelThisColour(x,y,c) function -- nothing 3D, not even a
line() function, which, even if I were to use, I would prefer to
develop/learn on my own. I would prefer to have some easy-to-use basic
draw-graphics-to-file, compressed or otherwise, ability, but just being
able to draw to screen/window would be fine.

Compiled or interpreted, I don't care. Processing/drawing time is no
object: I'm not looking to make a usable application, just to generate
one-off graphics for my personal use. My eventual goal is to
algorithmically generate multi-printed-page compositions I can print
and physically (meatspace) crop, tape together, and put up as posters
in my dorm room. Probably nothing more complicated than basic geometry
and a Mandlebrot set.

I'm working under Windows XP, and will use any free
interpreter/compiler/library, but would prefer something GPL'd. I have
computational experience (with textual output) with C and C++, and have
worked with basic graphics in Object-Oriented Turing (a decent learning
language) and MATLAB (the latter two, being commercial and proprietary
(read: expensive), not being usable options), but could easily and
would eagerly learn any other language.

If possible, though I would gladly sacrifice this for a
print-to-file-at-unlimited-resolution feature, I would like prefer
something which works with graphics out-of-the-box, without too much
unintuitive overhead to set things up.

Thank you very much.

.

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