Biblical sources, Pennsylvania German decorative art, popular prints and personal fantasies went into her creations, which are distinguished by bright colors, sometimes abstract patterning and a happy lightness of touch.

It is a lyrical arrangement of elements that flips between illustration and abstract patterning.

On every remaining inch of surface, this artist from Pittsboro, N.C., had painted abstract patterning in minute lines.

In dynamic, boldly inventive compositions that incorporate military symbols with abstract patterning in black, white and highly assertive colors, Hartley achieved his own strong modernist voice, becoming a painter to reckon with.

Note, too, a dense mix of cartoon characters and abstract patterning painted collaboratively in gouache by Christian Schumann and Gary Panter (Johnson).

You can gain an appreciation of abstract patterning and language through ancient Greek as much as through modern Spanish (perhaps more so, different alphabet).

Their bright colors, sometimes abstract patterning and lightness of touch give them great appeal.

Drafted into the Army in 1942, he was sent to topographic school and spent the rest of the war drawing maps, becoming familiar with the aerial spaciousness, abstract patterning and meticulousness of cartography.

They require more active participation on the part of the user, including the perception of abstract patterning and simultaneous comprehension of all parts.

At one level the painting invites pleasure in the abstract patterning created by the triangular shape of the old gun against the tessellated stone floor and wall.