diagrammatic
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In diagrammatic canvases that look like otherworldly computer chips, she writes her own invented language and creates charts and instructions inscrutable to the viewer—not a problem since they’re meant for nonhuman entities.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Writing in The Times, Roberta Smith said his small ink drawings and gouaches “operate somewhere in the gap between William Wegman’s drolly captioned early drawings and Jean Michel-Basquiat’s acerbic diagrammatic images.”
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2021
The Hollywood Reporter: “David Mamet’s latest effort, which the playwright has also directed, is just as diagrammatic, glib and insincere as any over-massaged middlebrow Miramax film from the 1990s.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2019
Against fields of powdery blue, drenching orange and ethereal lilac, Klint set circular or spiral-shaped motifs, looping letters and diagrammatic signs in an array of harmonious yellows, greens, whites and blacks.
From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2018
A diagrammatic drawing representing the jar of water and showing the various positions assumed by the wrigglers.Careful drawings of each stage.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Lucas, Frederic