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illustration

[il-uh-strey-shuhn] / ˌɪl əˈstreɪ ʃən /




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The brain's microscopic wiring may need a different kind of textbook illustration.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

As Paul Klee, an abstract—sometimes narrative—artist, insisted: “A picture is not an illustration of an idea, but the idea itself.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Mark Hilbert, whose 10-year-old Hilbert Museum of California Art exhibits California scene paintings, animation and illustration, predicts that the Lucas Museum will “upend the art world” by displaying art that “tells a story.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Here’s an extremely simplistic illustration to see how the rent-and-invest versus buy numbers could play out today, using a calculator provided by Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi: A 35-year-old buys a starter home.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

There they can be fruitfully active in less risky work: illustration, typographic design, industrial design, and interior design, for example.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

“This is a museum of the ‘people’s art’ — the images are illustrations of the beliefs we live with every day,” said Hobson, “and for that reason, this art belongs to everyone.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Like most made-for-TV illustrations, these fantasies didn’t reflect life for most people, and certainly not working-class families with two working parents.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

The museum aims to celebrate visual storytelling in all its forms: among them fine art, photography, comics, science-fiction illustrations and, of course, movies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

His illustrations are seen across the charity's nature reserves.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

The illustrations showed a little green fuzzy-headed creature.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez




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