In them color has become more prominent and active, and geometric forms have been traded in for a sinuous, all-over painting that seems like a hybrid of calligraphic gesture and mechanical patterning.

It brings to mind the belief that the calligraphic gesture enabled natural forces to flow, perhaps even cascade, from the ink through the hand and brush and onto the silk or paper.

The shapes were fuzzy, without clear boundaries, made up of small calligraphic gestures.

Starkness, slowness and heavier, calligraphic gestures suggested a facing of death.

Mr. Tapies has a distinct and heartfelt sensibility, which may be most convincingly expressed in his calligraphic gestures.

And the segmented neck and legs seem at the same time to be studied, even anatomical, and almost tossed-off calligraphic gestures.

The forms in these latest works are really markings, sprawly scrawls and calligraphic gestures that play splashily over contrasting close-valued grounds, sometimes to gorgeous effect.

Her calligraphic gestures reflect her sympathy with the Chinese idea of stones as microcosms in which process and permanence are equally present.

Jacques Dupin speaks of the influence that Japanese art had on Miro because he sees the lines as calligraphic gestures on patches of intense color.

Her canvases, like "Marked Void / Black," with its milky lozenges of pigment masking calligraphic gestures, conceal as much as they reveal.