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LINELINE
Alice Neel drawing
WHAT IS LINE
in an art-
work?
How can we talk about line, in the
context of visual art?
A line is a point moving in space.
Nasca Lines, Nasca Desert, Peru(moved, scraped earth ) 400 – 650 AD
Pablo Picasso(photo of moving flashlight)
Pablo Picasso
Line(s) can describeform in different ways.
Carolyn Staehle
The EDGE of a form, or the directional movement of a
form itself, may also be thought of as LINE
in both 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional art.
Matt Shlian origami sculpture
BalthusRod Arad chair
What QUALITIES might a line have?
How can we describe line in art?
Paul Fabozzi Guache and colored pencil on paper and mylar layersUnknown artist, Manzanar Camp Sumi ink
Line has “weight”:thickness or thinness.
Brice Marden
Juan Gris
Line has SHAPE--- itmight be straight, curvy,or angular …
continuous or interrupted…
OskarKokoshka
Dr. LakaKathe Kollwitz
Line can have COLOR, VALUE, and TEXTURE.
Pablo Picasso
HORIZONTAL lines in an artwork may contribute a sense of restfulness, stability, stillness.
LINES ARE DIRECTIONAL.
VERTICAL lines or directional movement can suggest power, forceful stability.
Hong Chun Zhang charcoal and graphite
DIAGONAL lines best evoke motion, energy, dynamism.
Gomedia
Lebbeus Woods
Hokusai wood-block print
Most compositions contain a variety of directional lines, whose energies play off against one another,
and lead the viewer’s eye around the composition.
Pablo Picasso
CONTOUR LINEis a simple, more or less continuous line, which follows contours, or edges .
SOME TYPES OF DRAWN LINE:
George Seurat
HATCHING and CROSS HATCHINGare ways of using lines for shading to create darker values,
often to show dimensionality or space.
Kathe Kollwitz
Line can also show SPACE and dimensionalitydimensionalitywith perspective lines, cross-contour lines, and overlapping lines.
Moises Mahiques
CROSS-CONTOUR LINESfollow contours across a surface,to show dimensionality.
Calligraphic line refers to line having theflowing and expressive quality of calligraphy(decorative, handwritten lettering.)
Sufi Calligraphic Art Chinese Calligraphy
Henri Matisse
GESTURAL LINES, made with energy and speed, evoke direction and movement of form (whether abstract or representational form.)
Julie Mehretu
Honore Daumier
Some line, repeating its movement or gesture, may be thought of as
RHYTHMIC.
Gabriel Orozco
EXPRESSIVE line may suggest mood, emotion, tension or energy.
Egon Schiele
IN A COMPOSITION, LINE FUNCTIONS TO: • Describe form; create shapes.
• Lead a viewers eye around the composition.
• Establish directional movement within the composition.
• Through shading, create darker values, and a sense of space or volume.
• Express energy and mood through line quality and direction.
A definition ofDRAWING:DRAWING:lines and marks made on a surface.
Ernesto Caivano
Lascaux Caves, France
15,300 BCE (charcoal, earth pigments on stone)
Edgar Degas (black and white chalk on paper)
Charcoal
Kulvinder Kaur Dher
Odilon Redon
PASTEL (colored chalk)
David Musgrave
GRAPHITE
Serse
D.L. Alvarez(graphite drawing based on photo)
Judy Chicago
COLORED PENCIL
Leonardo Da Vinci
PEN and INK
Charles Dana Gibson
RobertCrumb
sketchbook pages
FELT PEN
Tom Friedman(ink pen)
Fang Lijun INK WASH
George Baselitz
Kiteka Rishi
COMPUTER- GENERATED DRAWING
uses wind analysis software (used by builders of skyscrapers)to generate fluid surfaces that he renders by hand.
thefoxisblack.com
Peter Jellitsch
Thread, Paper
Sarah Lucas
Hair drawing on handmade paper Mona Hatoum
Body Art
GraphitePencil on Skull
GabrielOrozco
“Footprints of History” @ 2008 Beijing Olympics
Fireworks
Cai Guo-Quiang
Gunpowder and Ink
Bruce Nauman
Neon, Glass
Bruce Nauman