pictorial

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Over and over again, he seduces us with color, engages us with delectable subject matter, and then stuns us with his overwhelming pictorial intelligence and inventiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

“This frequent and deepened engagement with the pictorial arts must in part be credited to the challenge posed by Titian.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 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

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

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