Each handleless cup has a slightly wobbly, irregular form and appears to have been made by fusing separate facets, resulting in loose grid or checkerboard patterns.

With "The Parachutists" (1944), he achieves an effect almost like stained glass: the loose grid of pictographic shapes looks as if it is lighted from behind.

By now the painting is virtually constructed in terms of a loose grid or framework of vertical and horizontal lines suggested by the outlines of the buildings.

Airy or oceanic blue flux and little boxes in loose grids are the bipolar terms of Ms. Hackett's expansive, doodlelike drawings.

Focusing the sun's rays with a magnifying glass, he creates a loose grid on his finished work.

He arranged them in loose grids or mobile-like clusters, or pushed them to the canvases' outer edges.

They consisted of loose grids.

In one tall, skinny painting Cubist fragmentation is sorted out into a loose grid of green and yellow strokes, with results that suggest a swatch of patterned cloth.

Soft Front, a piece featuring acrylic-painted paper tiles arranged in a loose grid, is visceral and distressing, a more sensational piece than the quiet and contemplative works it recalls.

He works methodically, starting his loose but regular grid from the left hand corner of the canvas.