Spatial relationships are uncertain, and the mountains, rendered in dry, short ink strokes, have an oddly animated quality, as if they were huge beasts lumbering off toward the distance.

Stare at Miffy head on, and Mr. Bruna's sculptural training becomes evident as the figure's straightforward unshaded body, outlined in firm ink strokes, assumes rounded proportions, colored in the primary hues favored by Mondrian and Matisse, two of his inspirations.

The three characters of the title materialize in thick black ink strokes.

And a single tapering ink stroke on a blank white page from 1960 looks like a playful, offhanded sketch of "Broken Obelisk," one of Newman's few sculptures.

While the format and delicate ink strokes evoke historical practice, a number of the tiny, obviously dislocated images are nudes with enlarged heads and dysfunctional bodies that seem closer to Egon Schiele.

Old carved wood shop signs, placards with the day's specials written on them in flowing ink strokes, and hei, the folded white strips of paper that decorate shrines, hang from Shiruko's walls and ceiling.

In one he kvetches about his health - his stomach aches, his feet hurt - though the quavers in his ink strokes are the result of his adamant brush technique rather than infirmity.

Through black ink strokes of jungle shrubbery brushing past overhead and all around him he could see the glimmer of the full moon sailing up from the east.

Instead of converting the user's writing to text on the screen, displaying one character before the next can be written, the system would simply capture digital ink strokes, while recognition would take place in the background.

In a study for the multipanel painting "Cite" (1951), squares of horizontal ink strokes are joined in a discontinuous pattern: jazzy, elegant, infinitely expandable.