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
“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
In one of the earliest examples of his "pictorial" photography, Fading Away, Robinson combined five separate negatives to produce a scene showing a dying girl surrounded by her family.
From BBC • May 10, 2025
Both artist and sitter participated in putting on a pictorial show.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
The pictorial space, with its indeterminate depth, becomes continuous with ours, despite the fact that the frame cuts off the figure.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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