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

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

With better known themes, such as the Annunciation of the Virgin, thoughtful curation allows viewers to discern the subtle pictorial choices that Fra Angelico made.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

The stylistic choices result in a striking, distinctly pictorial aesthetic in line with earlier projects that Han and Vallade worked on, such as “Long Way North” and “Calamity,” both directed by Rémi Chayé.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

Now, as the Asian festivities were apparently drawing to a close, a national pictorial magazine decided to do a “sensitive” and “searching” feature on Milagro’s “anguish.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols