Mountains frequently caught his attention, as in a series of schematic brush and ink paintings of the spectacular limestone peaks of Guilin in southern China.
Ms. Dona brings together the sensuous and the mechanical to dissonant effect in acridly hued, Neo-Cubist paintings in which schematic images of engines and straight-edge spatial divisions are layered with gaseouscolor fields and accented by passages of thick, gloppy paint or pointillist texture (Johnson).
Fig. 2 A schematic diagram of Tibetan wall paintings 1.
Prehistoric cave paintings in France and Spain have schematic diagrams of primitive implements, evidence of the first stirrings of human tool making, and scenes of peasants working the soil are found throughout ancient art.
Neatly limned ink drawings from 1981 declare the concepts on which his retro-Modernist, grid-based paintings have been based: they are schematic renderings of prison cells that represent modern systems of dwelling, technology and communication as a vast, interconnected penitentiary of consciousness.
Their schematic topography bears no correspondence to any known Monet paintings.
In Arnhem Land, where the X-ray style which shows the internal structures of animals is concentrated, bark paintings are done in a style of schematic naturalism.
Mr. Grotjahn, who lives and works in Los Angeles, has long used schematic faces as the starting point for his abstract paintings, obliterating their features as he develops the generally symmetrical butterfly-wing geometries for which he is known.
Both in reliefs and in wall paintings, the figure compositions are reduced to schematic groups of the minimum number of standard human and celestial types needed to tell a moral story, without any infrastructure of significant form and execution.
Whether he was painting donkeys and vegetable patches and a carob tree, in paintings as detailed as The Farm (bought by Ernest Hemingway), or in paintings as emptied-out as his schematic portraits of Catalan peasants, or his triptychs and late abstractions, the drive is all his own.
