Sentences with word «ideograph»

On the walls are Japanese shikihi (fine paper squares) with Zen sayings in the Sino - Japanese ideographs, two Taoist paintings and a picture of the Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya Bodhisattva) from Koryuji, Kyoto, These are well received by people and set a good tone to the room.

Possibly taking clues from Korean ideographs, Suh's intertwined formations oscillate between representation and sheer mark - making.

In an essay published in the catalogue of Stamos's 1946 exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery, Barnett Newman wrote that the younger artist's «ideographs capture the moment of totemic affinity with the rock and the mushroom, the crayfish and the seaweed,» adding that «one might say that instead of going into the rock, he comes out of it» — an image of the artist not as an inhabitant of the natural world but, rather, as its progeny.

In contrast with the pose's pornographic overtones, its symmetry reduces the body to an abstract ideograph, while the scumbled pinks, whites, oranges, and greens are more tender than provocative.

While palette and pattern appear to proffer a clear visual code, an eclectic array of signs, symbols, ideographs and exformation [1] contradict this information, heightening the ambiguity of figuration v. abstraction, signification v. allusion, exterior v. interior, presence v. absence.

The exhibition name derives from «ideograph», a term usually applied to markings in prehistoric cave painting which suggest the idea of an object.

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.

With Amish quilts, concrete poetry, and Quakerism as points of reference, the works channel written language through the ideographs of the heart and the checkerboard.

Daum's work is characterized by flat planes of color, shaped by an overall patterning influenced by the ideographs of the Pacific Northwest Native Americans.

Barnett Newman described these ideographs as «A shape that was a living thing; a vehicle for an abstract thought - complex.»