pictorial

Example Sentences

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Biggers approaches these antique quilts as tangible objects with authentic if anonymous histories, not simply as immaterial pictorial images.

From Los Angeles Times

Even Luis Nishikawa, whose first name reveals he wasn’t Japanese by birth, employs a restrained East Asian pictorial style for his black-and-white lithographs of rocky Mexican mountains.

From Washington Post

With its pictorial references to the local Shinnecock’s environmental history, Leonard’s contemporary work is placed alongside the historical material of “Art of Native America.”

From New York Times

Both artists play with print and bookmaking formats, using internal frames to boost pictorial drama.

From Washington Post

But they also can take over the image, as in Bronzino’s gorgeous portrait of the distinguished poetess Laura Battiferri, who holds a large volume of Petrarch’s sonnets that absorbs much of the pictorial energy.

From Washington Post