pictorial

(adjective)

Described or otherwise represented by illustration rather than words.

Related Terms

  • codex

Examples of pictorial in the following topics:

  • Photography in the Latter 20th Century

    • A culminating moment for pictorialism and for photography in general occurred in 1910, when the Albright Gallery in Buffalo bought 15 photographs from Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery.
    • At first, fine art photographers tried to imitate painting styles, giving rise to Pictorialism, a style that uses soft focus to create a dreamy, 'romantic' look.
    • Pictorialism dominated photography from about 1885 to 1915, though it was still being promoted by some as late as the 1940s.
    • Pictorialism gradually declined in popularity after 1920, fading out of popularity completely by the end of World War II.
    • Discuss the progression of photography from pictorialism and straight photography to the snapshot aesthetic and conceptual work.
  • Motion Diagrams

    • A motion diagram is a pictorial description of an object's motion and represents the position of an object at equally spaced time intervals.
    • A motion diagram is a pictorial description of the motion of an object.
  • Statistical Graphics

    • Statistical graphics allow results to be displayed in some sort of pictorial form and include scatter plots, histograms, and box plots.
    • Whereas statistics and data analysis procedures generally yield their output in numeric or tabular form, graphical techniques allow such results to be displayed in some sort of pictorial form.
  • Codices of the Aztecs

    • Aztec codices, or pictorial manuscripts, are among the best primary sources of information on Aztec culture.
    • Pre-colonial codices differ from colonial codices in that they are largely pictorial and not meant to symbolize spoken or written narratives.
    • Like all pre-colonial codices, it was originally entirely pictorial in nature, although some Spanish descriptions were later added.
    • The Aubin Codex is a pictorial history of the Aztecs from their departure from Aztlán through the Spanish conquest to the early Spanish colonial period, ending in 1607.
  • Real Numbers, Functions, and Graphs

    • Graphs can be used to represent these relationships pictorially.
  • Codices of the Mixtec

    • In Mixtec, the relationships among pictorial elements denote the meaning of the text, whereas in other Mesoamerican writing the pictorial representations are not incorporated into the text.
    • This arrangement of the bride and groom is a purely pictorial convention, with no connection to the language.
  • Gothic Architecture and Sculpture

    • Gothic Architecture and Arch Elements in England from Charles Knight's Pictorial Gallery of Arts, 1858
  • Documents

    • The texts and documents can be either written, pictorial, or visual in form.
  • Space

    • Artists have devoted a great deal of time to experimenting with perspectives and degrees of flatness of the pictorial plane.
  • Photography

    • It was characterized by pictorialism, in which pictures and photographic materials were manipulated to emulate the quality of paintings and etchings being produced at that time.
    • Alfred Steiglitz used pictorialism to create a painting-like quality in his photographs.
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