pictographic

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In the 1940s, Lam developed his own distinctive, hybrid figures, pictographic language and pictorial style.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

On a map of the New World, Baniwa crosses out European place names and replaces Western pictographic symbolics with Indigenous ones.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2022

Note: The words “*innocent face*” were not a true pictographic emoji.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2019

With their intricate pictographic texts, Ekpuk’s paintings can spin the viewer’s eye in multiple directions at once.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018

If so, the writing could not be fundamentally pictographic or metaphorical; rather, most of the symbols must stand for letters or syllables.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan