architectonic

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But he is best known for his inimitable, Surrealist pictures featuring skeletal, architectonic figures—merging humans, animals, foliage, totems and signs—which, though indecipherable, are instantly recognizable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

"A monumental architectonic work, with dimensions comparable to those of the National Mall, in Washington, D.C.," wrote the New Yorker in 2016.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2022

This architectonic quality makes them compatible with the work of the venue’s other current featured artist, Jean Sausele-Knodt, whose 3D wall sculptures have been reviewed in this column previously.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

The competing perpendicular composition of frontal and profile poses is architectonic, like a building’s structure.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2022

The defect in a higher and more architectonic theory of the world with which he has been charged is not quite justly chargeable, for from his point of view no such theory was possible.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George