pictorial
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His art, recently celebrated in landmark exhibitions that brought together almost all of his surviving works, also invites contemplation in intimate, vest-pocket shows that allow more intimate contact with the painter’s stunning pictorial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 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
The system then provides pictorial instructions to the humans on what to pick, where to place it and which truck to load.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
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
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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