pictorial representation

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Meaning

visual representation as by photography or painting

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The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it. Paul Klee

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. John Ruskin

Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited. Fatema Mernissi

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