Definitions
representation by drawing or painting etc
Word origin
From French dépiction, from Latin dēpictiō. By surface analysis, depict + -ion.
Used in a sentence
“It is nevertheless true that, whereas the teaching of music and literature is established on a scientific basis, the art of depiction is still taught in a primitive and inefficient way.”
“But since "realism" or representational depiction is itself a mode of art, it can never escape some degree of formal removal from the raw data of experience; […]”
“As previously described, depiction is a unique type of visual representation defined by both seeing the activities/marks that constitute the depiction whilst also seeing the object of the depiction.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Art portrayal”9 letters
02“Art image”9 letters
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