Pictorial
adjective
Related to pictures or drawings.
She created a pictorial guide to help tourists navigate the city.
Often appears as...
- pictorial representation
- pictorial guide
noun
A book or magazine that has a lot of pictures.
He enjoyed reading pictorials about wildlife and nature.
Often appears as...
- wildlife pictorial
- fashion pictorial
adjective
Related to pictures or drawings.
She created a pictorial guide to help tourists navigate the city.
Often appears as...
- pictorial representation
- pictorial guide
noun
A book or magazine that has a lot of pictures.
He enjoyed reading pictorials about wildlife and nature.
Often appears as...
- wildlife pictorial
- fashion pictorial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Emphasis
Pictorial is used when something is best explained visually rather than through text.
Instead of a written manual, we use a pictorial guide.
Pro Tip 2/3Educational Tool
Pictorials are helpful for learning, making complex information more accessible.
The children's encyclopedia uses pictorials to simplify concepts.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Depiction
Pictorials can depict cultural elements, often used in travel materials to showcase destinations.
The brochure included a pictorial display of the local dance.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Emphasis
Pictorial is used when something is best explained visually rather than through text.
Instead of a written manual, we use a pictorial guide.
Pro Tip 2/3Educational Tool
Pictorials are helpful for learning, making complex information more accessible.
The children's encyclopedia uses pictorials to simplify concepts.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Depiction
Pictorials can depict cultural elements, often used in travel materials to showcase destinations.
The brochure included a pictorial display of the local dance.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Emphasis
Pictorial is used when something is best explained visually rather than through text.
Instead of a written manual, we use a pictorial guide.
Pro Tip 2/3Educational Tool
Pictorials are helpful for learning, making complex information more accessible.
The children's encyclopedia uses pictorials to simplify concepts.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Depiction
Pictorials can depict cultural elements, often used in travel materials to showcase destinations.
The brochure included a pictorial display of the local dance.
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Video examples
Aparna Rao: Art that...
So this is the sketch of the two states. One is total chaos. The other is absolute order. And we were interested in seeing how little change it takes to move from one state to the other state. This also reminded us of two very different pictorial traditions. One is the altar tablets of the 15th century,
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Will Wright: Spore,...
that they didn't really think was possible before. This is almost like designing something like Maya -- that an eight-year-old can use. But really the goal here was, within about a minute, I wanted somebody to replicate what typically takes a pictorial artist several weeks to create.
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How to make hard choices...
or a graphic artist. There are a variety of things that matter in such a choice, like the excitement of the work, achieving financial security, having time to raise a family, and so on. Maybe the artist's career puts you on the cutting edge of new forms of pictorial expression.
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Insightful human...
that were designed to look at the intersection between sound and image, to use an image to unveil a musical structure or to use a sound to show you something interesting about something that's usually pictorial. So what you're seeing on the screen is literally being drawn
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Proof: James Balog on...
the world is talking back to me through that camera the pictorial language has a unique ability to penetrate the human heart and mind photography has the power to change the course of civilization through changing perception we've inherited a huge number of assumptions
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Lifesaving tech powered...
red means don't use it easy right we created a version of the heater that was powered with hot water instead of electricity and we made the instructions entirely pictorial so illiterate women could understand we discovered that many
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Gladiator Training PIPE...
it's a world apart from ordinary factum from soldiers fighting because the roman people are obsessed with gladiator fights we're able to build a very clear picture of what one looked like there's written evidence pictorial evidence
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Ancient Egypt 101 PIPE...
pictorial characters it was used to inscribe monuments and pottery and predominantly served a decorative or ceremonial purpose soon after another ancient form of writing called hieratic developed out of the hieroglyphic system
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Paola Antonelli: Why I...
It looks at the territory of the United States as if it were a wheat field that is procured by the winds and that is really giving you a pictorial image of what's going on with the winds in the United States.
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Safari Live - Day 12 PIPE...
Rebecca is saying the pictorial patched stickler they're not a bad guess given that they too have got a yellow-bellied juvenile so maybe there are the petrel
Video examples
Aparna Rao: Art that...
So this is the sketch of the two states. One is total chaos. The other is absolute order. And we were interested in seeing how little change it takes to move from one state to the other state. This also reminded us of two very different pictorial traditions. One is the altar tablets of the 15th century,
Video examples
Will Wright: Spore,...
that they didn't really think was possible before. This is almost like designing something like Maya -- that an eight-year-old can use. But really the goal here was, within about a minute, I wanted somebody to replicate what typically takes a pictorial artist several weeks to create.
Video examples
How to make hard choices...
or a graphic artist. There are a variety of things that matter in such a choice, like the excitement of the work, achieving financial security, having time to raise a family, and so on. Maybe the artist's career puts you on the cutting edge of new forms of pictorial expression.
Video examples
Insightful human...
that were designed to look at the intersection between sound and image, to use an image to unveil a musical structure or to use a sound to show you something interesting about something that's usually pictorial. So what you're seeing on the screen is literally being drawn
Video examples
Proof: James Balog on...
the world is talking back to me through that camera the pictorial language has a unique ability to penetrate the human heart and mind photography has the power to change the course of civilization through changing perception we've inherited a huge number of assumptions
Video examples
Lifesaving tech powered...
red means don't use it easy right we created a version of the heater that was powered with hot water instead of electricity and we made the instructions entirely pictorial so illiterate women could understand we discovered that many
Video examples
Gladiator Training PIPE...
it's a world apart from ordinary factum from soldiers fighting because the roman people are obsessed with gladiator fights we're able to build a very clear picture of what one looked like there's written evidence pictorial evidence
Video examples
Ancient Egypt 101 PIPE...
pictorial characters it was used to inscribe monuments and pottery and predominantly served a decorative or ceremonial purpose soon after another ancient form of writing called hieratic developed out of the hieroglyphic system
Video examples
Paola Antonelli: Why I...
It looks at the territory of the United States as if it were a wheat field that is procured by the winds and that is really giving you a pictorial image of what's going on with the winds in the United States.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 12 PIPE...
Rebecca is saying the pictorial patched stickler they're not a bad guess given that they too have got a yellow-bellied juvenile so maybe there are the petrel
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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Hans Hofmann
German Artist
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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Octavio Paz
Mexican Poet
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
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Alva Myrdal
Swedish Diplomat
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
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Roz Chast
American Cartoonist
I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they're happening.
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Adrian Lyne
English Director
So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.
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Frank Stella
American Artist
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
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John Ruskin
English Writer
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud
French Director
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
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Stephen Gardiner
British Architect
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
Quote examples
H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
Quote examples
Hans Hofmann
German Artist
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
Quote examples
Octavio Paz
Mexican Poet
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
Quote examples
Alva Myrdal
Swedish Diplomat
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
Quote examples
Roz Chast
American Cartoonist
I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they're happening.
Quote examples
Adrian Lyne
English Director
So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.
Quote examples
Frank Stella
American Artist
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
Quote examples
John Ruskin
English Writer
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
Quote examples
Jean-Jacques Annaud
French Director
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
Quote examples
Stephen Gardiner
British Architect
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
Example 1 of 10
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