pictorial space

collocation in English

meaningsofpictorialandspace

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pictorial
adjective
uk
/pɪkˈtɔː.ri.əl/us
/pɪkˈtɔːr.i.əl/
shown in the form of a picture ...
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space
noun
uk
/speɪs/us
/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofpictorialandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There is also apparent a persistingpictorialspacein their photographs that has affinities with orthography, the principal representational tool of architecture.
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Sitters came to occupy more of thepictorialspace.
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Turned to face us, the image appears ready to burst from the cramped confines of itspictorialspace, as if to reach out and grasp us with its sharp talons.
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Thepictorialspaceof each image was directed at different points on the ground where the sun reflecting in the windows was visible.
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Many of his portraits begin in an individual format, but many times the idealized figure degenerates and is presented in graphic rather thanpictorialspace.
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Velzquez looks outwards, beyond thepictorialspaceto where a viewer of the painting would stand.
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These enter thepictorialspaceas though through a path in the foliage, males standing to the left, women to the right.
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Masaccio has used linear perspective to createpictorialspace; it can be seen on the orthogonal on the cornice of her throne.
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Munch also began to favor a shallowpictorialspaceand a minimal backdrop for his frontal figures.
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From the figure of the artist, the viewer's eye leaps again diagonally into thepictorialspace.
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Both are lit by identical light falling from the upper left of thepictorialspace.
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Due to their so thoroughly induced metamorphoses into a new and singularpictorialspace, the results of this manipulation could easily be named transmutations.
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Revealing a disintegration of figurative forms and division of thepictorialspaceinto decorative areas, this work signalled a growing commitment, shared by both artists, towards complete abstraction.
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Christus placed the figures on holy ground in the center of thepictorialspace.
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Traversi's satirical paintings typically depict animated groups of bourgeois protagonists that seem compressed physically into an indoorpictorialspacethat can barely contain them.
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Mary's long robe swirls around thepictorialspace, obscuring her throne and eventually falling at the support by her feet.
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They moved beyond the flat perspective and outlined figuration of earlier painting in favour of three-dimensional pictorial spaces.
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Their pictorial spaces are confined and, especially in the upper register, cramp the figures.
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