Early pictures set up contrapuntal relations between wide brushstrokes and darting, calligraphic marks; they are lively and elegant.

In watercolors like "Equilibre" (1933), he allowed marvelously breezy, curving gestures, like Japanese calligraphic marks, to enter his vocabulary.

Then he saw a small calligraphic mark on her neck, just behind her ear.

In them, Mr. Richenburg explores a wide range of calligraphic marks and gestures, working capably in a relatively freewheeling manner that he would soon abandon.

Their subject matter is minimal and monotonous fields are indicated and made lively by tangles of abstract calligraphic marks.

Most interesting of these is a light oblong filled with small calligraphic marks in grays and dull yellow and bordered by rusty brown.

The calligraphic marks were elaborate funerary rites for a dying world.

The beautiful little drawings displayed in the gallery's office show how the sculptures evolve from a series of almost calligraphic marks, and are a kind of "drawing in space."

I love the calligraphic mark.

An ink sketch by Peter Docter, who directed "Monsters, Inc.," sums up the essence of Sulley in a few almost calligraphic marks.