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pictorial
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[ adjective ] pertaining to or consisting of pictures
Synonyms Examples "pictorial perspective" "pictorial records" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)It resembles , too , pictures such_as Du^rer and Bruegel did , in which all that looks at_first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary , the representation of a proverb , for_example , or a deadly_sin . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Flatness may now monopolize everything , but it is a flatness become so ambiguous and expanded as to turn_into illusion itself - at_least an optical if_not , properly_speaking , a pictorial illusion . The affixed elements of collage were extruded , as_it_were , and cut_off from the literal pictorial surface to form a bas-relief . |
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[ adjective ] evoking lifelike images within the mind
Examples "pictorial poetry and prose" "graphic accounts of battle" "a lifelike portrait" "a vivid description" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)It appears that the dominant tendency of Mann 's early tales , however pictorial or even picturesque the surface , is already toward the symbolic , the emblematic , the expressionistic . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (writing) a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures
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