The phrase "a simple picture of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a straightforward or uncomplicated representation of something, often in a visual context.
Example: "The artist created a simple picture of a sunset, capturing the essence of the moment with minimal detail."
Alternatives: "an uncomplicated depiction of" or "a basic illustration of".
"He drew me a simple picture of a neuron, and pretty soon I was off to the races".
The exploitation of this pneumatic, mocking, liquid-lipped goddess gave the world a simple picture of the Lorelei.
A simple picture of a polymer molecule inside a pore at the point of exclusion-adsorption transition is presented, based on the Debye-Bueche model.
The term spin derives from a simple picture of the nucleus as a lumpy ball of protons and neutrons rotating about an axis.
We present a simple picture of these effects based on an effective mass description of electron hole pairs moving on the surface of a cylinder.
"The supernova experiments four years ago confirmed a simple picture of the universe where approximately 30percentt of it is made of matter and 70percentt is made of dark energy -- whatever it is," Linde observed.
But the subtext was to remind voters of a simpler picture of Shorten sitting in the cold by a mine pit.
My title, Red Cat, White Cat, a simple picture book of opposites, started off this way: "Red Cat, White Cat, Day Cat, Night Cat. In Cat, Out Cat, Thin Cat, Stout Cat". Not to be outdone, Chuck Murphy's 1998 Black Cat, White Cat: A Pop-Up Book of Opposites begins like this: "Black Cat, Day Cat. Fat Cat, Thin Cat. Out Cat, In Cat". Well, I thought.
Once a suffocatingly simple picture of a gas station bordered by a scrubby, highway-adjacent landscape, Edward Hopper's Gas is emblematic of the realist painter's minimalist style, which Hopper painter meditated over extensively before ever even putting brush to canvas.
It has also been speculated that the Lambda symbol was chosen as it somewhat resembles a very simple picture of an arm holding a crowbar, the first weapon acquired by Gordon Freeman, and a weapon for which the Half-Life series is famous.
Tables and graphs provide a convenient simple picture of a set of data (dataset), but it is often necessary to further summarize quantitative data, for example for hypothesis testing.
