Sentences with phrase «like pictographs»

Unlike Diebenkorn's brushwork, Mr. Smith's «dynamic, hooking calligraphy was more apt to have an openly comic quality, sometimes taking the form of barbed, cartoon - like pictographs, symbols or anatomical shapes.»

Like pictographs from an alien world, some of Earth's earliest animals appear as subtle marks on Newfoundland's Mistaken Point

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

I would like to see the petroglyphs & pictographs and do a little hiking.

Having mastered the pictograph format, Gottlieb sought new challenges, and in the 1950s, he «hit on dividing the canvas into two parts, which then became like an imaginary landscape.

The pictographs of the San Luiseño tribe are maze - like images adapted from Christian imagery into «spider boxes,» which are designed abstract drawings and used in Shamanistic practices.

Yet within a year or two, Gottlieb developed the pictograph into brilliant compositions of mask - like images and dazzling color that together recall us to the primitive rites and practices of the ancient world.

Given the context, an exhibition at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, I was intrigued by the various possibilities of these little pictographs being transcribed and / or re-codified by artists and designers into interactive platforms, large - scale installation works, digital collage and even being represented in traditional media, like painting and drawing.

In the 1990s the previous decade coalesced into the «village» paintings — small house - like mounds, on horizon lines, in landscapes dotted with pictographs.

When illuminated, the slides project a series of images that evoke abstracted landscapes, Constructivist iconography, and pictograph - like symbols.