pictorial
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Over and over again, he seduces us with color, engages us with delectable subject matter, and then stuns us with his overwhelming pictorial intelligence and inventiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
“This frequent and deepened engagement with the pictorial arts must in part be credited to the challenge posed by Titian.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Bachardy’s self-portraits and drawings of Isherwood pepper the galleries, a confluence that reveals something that should be obvious: Two portrait artists, one pictorial and the other literary, resided for decades in the same household.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
This is why he collects pictorial maps, why he has visited 248 public libraries in Los Angeles County and 401 of the 483 municipalities in California.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024
More purely pictorial than Zapotec or Maya script, the texts were arranged almost randomly on the page; red lines directed the reader s eye from image to image.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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