Pictorial design is the art of creating images and drawings.
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From the elements of mass pictorial communication employed by newspaper ads, comics and art-history tomes text bubbles, flat colors, outlined figures, Benday dots he could make pictures of pictures that were both illustrative and abstract.
Professional art historians were not impressed, declaring the works exhibited "completely lacking in pictorial interest", and particularly disparaging the Cezannes as "making one wonder how this painter's reputation has been achieved".