In one, a loopy line of thin rush reeds wanders all over the ceilings and walls of the gallery, and in and out of doorways.

The loopy and amusing abstract lines he drew alluded to cats, boats, whatever.

On paper, the artist draws fields of interwoven loopy lines that look like undulating expanses of netting (Johnson).

For more than six decades he continued to make paintings in which loopy lines, organic shapes and glowing spaces created the impression of visionary mindscapes.

Arnie Levin, the cartoonist of loopy lines, said, "There would be 40 artists piling up on the same topic."

One is the splendid "Sea Piece" of 1951, an abstract watercolor whose loopy, calligraphic lines leave restless areas of white space.

She also gets the evening's most charmingly loopy, and ineffably Guare-ish, lines.

Several cut-paper creations of black or red combine wavy lines, blobs and loopy calligraphic lines to elegant effect.

By itself, one of the pencil or ink studies for "Khorkom," a complex of loopy lines and overlapping bulbous forms, might look as if it was freely improvised.

Call them abstractions of the drama, which became loopy lines, dashes, dots, curlicues and crosshatches.