pictorial
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We leave the show realizing that Viollet-le-Duc was one of the world’s great pictorial thinkers, whose graphic curiosity recognized no boundaries between geology, anatomy and architecture.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
The nearly 70-year retrospective of portrait drawings in pencil and paint by Los Angeles artist Don Bachardy revealed the works to be like performances: Both artist and sitter participated in putting on a pictorial show.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
Each is staffed by one employee who follows pictorial instructions on several overhead screens.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
Both artist and sitter participated in putting on a pictorial show.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
Our starting point in Chapter 5 is the invention of perspective painting, which involved the application of geometrical principles to pictorial representation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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