It welds together the scratchy, linear forms of his mountains and trees to suggest a jagged crack in the universe.
Her abstract animations, of linear forms set to music, look to contemporary eyes like dancing versions of that classic midcentury children's toy, Colorforms.
In the 1980's, for example, the simple linear forms of his earliest wall works gave way to emphatic bands and arcs of saturated color.
Now she was doing cheerful confetti splashes of red, yellow and blue, calligraphic pirouettes, sweeping curves and minor skirmishes of linear forms, mostly spare on big white canvases.
Areas of smudging create an illusion of shadowy spatial depth, against and within which linear forms float.
Linear A and Linear B, linear forms of writing used by certain Aegean civilizations during the 2nd millennium bc.
The flat works begin with "The Dignity of Old" (1938), a lovely, small multimedia collage of yellows, browns and rust in which a composition of rectangles and linear forms is tricked out with postage stamps and glittering sequins.
And on a few pages, the sink drawings are accompanied by doodle-like linear forms, modernist-looking systems of overlapping squares, the kind of thing one might do to relax, without lifting the hand from the page.
There she appeared in the context of contemporary art from her homeland, Nigeria, specifically Uli art, a graphic-intensive style based on sinuous linear forms.
The chloroplast genome typically is circular (though linear forms have also been observed) and is roughly 120 200 kilobases in length.
