schematic

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Many of Lam’s forays into modernism, into the 1940s—dependent, almost to the point of parody, on Picasso—are schematic misunderstandings of Cubism’s spatial complexities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

The mournful irony underlying the somewhat schematic plot is that they never can quite find themselves in sync, despite the bonds between them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Setting down the xenomorphs on Earth is a stunning, scary idea that Hawley builds from a schematic illustrated with tension, tragedy, fascination, and grim familiarity with our species’ greatest flaws: hubris and greed.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2025

Merritt and Hahn believe this third early schematic of Disneyland from Davis — the drawing is undated — is perhaps the first to envision Anaheim as the park’s destination.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025

We know of countless later instances of magic which require only the crudest and most schematic kind of representation, such as two crossed sticks for a human figure.

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