pictorial
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“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
Each is staffed by one employee who follows pictorial instructions on several overhead screens.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 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
An accomplished leatherworker, Franz taught Alex the secrets of his craft; for his first project McCandless produced a tooled leather belt, on which he created an artful pictorial record of his wanderings.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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