1.   Later he developed a distinctive style that combined abstraction with figurative elements, painterly looseness with a delicate, near-calligraphic line.

2.   More typically, a figurative element will turn up transformed into an abstraction.

3.   The large and outwardly spare sculptures frequently incorporate figurative elements and decorative techniques, like bas-relief and wallpaper.

4.   These systems of knowledge find their way into paintings in abstracted diagrams that overlay the figurative elements.