Sentences with phrase «chinese pictograph»

The Chinese pictograph character for «crisis» is comprised of two symbols, «danger» and «opportunity».

Simplified and traditional Chinese hold hands to represent what the book looks like in minimal modernization and ancient Chinese pictographs.

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Chinese writing evolved through the development of pictographs (which depicted objects) or ideographs (which represented abstract notions) and the bronze sculptures from the artist's series Sages» Sayings derive from these ancient forms.

Other important contributors to action painting include: Mark Tobey noted for his White Writing style of calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an artist whose works include colour field compositions as well as vigorous gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his powerful black and white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bursts).