Some articles on picture, pictures:
... modern, digital-style resolutions (and traditional analog "TV lines per picture height" measurements) for various media ... Kell factor of 0.7 350×480 (250 lines per picture height) Umatic, Betamax, VHS, Video8 420×480 (300 lines per picture height) Super Betamax, Betacam (professional) 460×480 (330 lines per picture height) Analog ...
... Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, South London ... and bequests of varying sizes from its many patrons, Dulwich Picture Gallery houses one of the country’s finest collections of Old Masters, especially rich in French, Italian and Spanish ...
... Nicholas Schenck, MGM's president at the time, nearly did not allow the picture to be made because he felt the story was subversive ... indecisive Tracy tried to back out of the picture ... of the script has been sent to Alan Ladd and he has agreed to do the picture." The next day, Tracy committed to "Bad Day at Black Rock" ...
... A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children ... The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and pencil, among others ... Two of the earliest books with something like the format picture books still retain now were Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter from 1845 and Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit ...
... Any book that pairs a narrative format with pictures can be categorized as a picture book ... are as much a part of the experience with the book as the written text." Picture books are most often aimed at young children, and while some may have very basic language ... For this reason, picture books tend to have two functions in the lives of children they are first read to young children by adults, and then children read them themselves once they ...
More definitions of "picture":
- (noun): A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.
Synonyms: image, icon, ikon
- (noun): A clear and telling mental image.
Example: "He described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"
Synonyms: mental picture, impression
- (noun): Graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface.
Synonyms: painting
- (noun): A typical example of some state or quality.
Example: "The very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"
- (verb): Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.
Synonyms: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, image
- (noun): The visible part of a television transmission.
Example: "They could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"
Synonyms: video
- (noun): A graphic or vivid verbal description.
Example: "The author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"
Synonyms: word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, characterization, characterisation
- (noun): A situation treated as an observable object.
Example: "The political picture is favorable"
Synonyms: scene
- (noun): Illustrations used to decorate or explain a text.
Synonyms: pictorial matter
Famous quotes containing the word picture:
“The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half- piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time—they need to be able to picture themselves in the future.... If they can’t, then they’re simply reacting to daily events, responding to the needs of the moment—for pleasure, for affiliation, for acceptance.”
—Stanley I. Greenspan (20th century)
“With wonderful art he grinds into paint for his picture all his moods and experiences, so that all his forces may be brought to the encounter. Apparently writing without a particular design or responsibility, setting down his soliloquies from time to time, taking advantage of all his humors, when at length the hour comes to declare himself, he puts down in plain English, without quotation marks, what he, Thomas Carlyle, is ready to defend in the face of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)