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
Each is staffed by one employee who follows pictorial instructions on several overhead screens.
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
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
Naturally, those pictorial signs consisted mainly of numerals plus nouns for visible objects; the resulting texts were merely accounting reports in a telegraphic shorthand devoid of grammatical elements.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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