Sentences with phrase «hieroglyphic figures»

But the schematic, profile style also harkens back to the hieroglyphic figures of ancient Egypt, who speak a mysterious language that continues to fascinate.

Here, the ambiguous hieroglyphic figures seem to coalesce into a single recognizable keyhole form.

He entered the opening and found himself in a walled tunnel, with hieroglyphic figures covering every surface.

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He moves toward the hieroglyphic, so - called neo-primitive pictographs, symbols and patterns, usually in black on white, that would become his signature style; this scheme's noticeably male stick figures seem at once powerful and hapless, as if they caused the chaos that swirls around them.

A diagrammatic red arrow that roughly bisects the canvas horizontally, for instance, is encircled by a second sort of sign — the hieroglyphic outline of a wolf, in whose haunches some see a bull's head transforming the central figure into a two - headed monster.

The directions read sorta like hieroglyphics, but we eventually managed to figure it out.