cross-hatching), and texture.Ĭalligraphy Illustrations bismi-llāhi ar-raħmāni ar-raħīmi بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Descriptive lines are used in two dimensional work to suggest three dimensionality (i.e. They can also be used as decorative elements. Descriptive lines are used in such things as handwriting, charts and diagrams. The Parthenon,a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, 447-438 BCEĭescriptive lines give us information. They imply sturdiness, solidity, and immovability. Horizontal and vertical lines used together suggest permanence. 200 BC.įound in the Baths of Trajan, 1506.Height 8' (2.4 m.) Current location Museo Pio-Clementino, Octagon, Laocoön Hall Marble, copy after an Hellenistic original from ca. Laocoön and his sons, also known as the Laocoön Group They convey dynamism, vitality, and animation. They imply strength, power, and authority.Ĭathedral of Our Lady of Chartres ( Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), Chartres, France 1193-1250ĭiagonal lines suggest action and movement. Oil on canvas 98 × 74 cm (38.58 × 29.13 in) Hamburger Kunsthalle They impart a sense of peacefulness, vastness, and constancy.Ĭaspar David Friedrich The wanderer above the sea of fog 1818 Horizontal lines suggest landscape and the horizon. Hasegawa Tohaku Pine Trees (left hand screen) 16th century They convey a sense of gracefulness, dynamism, and spontaneity. They are irregular, curved, and often fluid. Organic lines are the types of lines found in nature. Sol LeWitt Bands of Lines in Four Directions in Black and White 1977Ĭollection Walker Art Center Gift of the artist, 1983 They convey a sense of order, conformity, and reliability. True geometric lines are rarely found in nature, but often found in man-made constructions. They have regularity and hard or sharp edges. Geometric lines are mathematically determined. This a good example of implied line: the horizontal stone on top of the vertical stones appears to extend across the vertical stones on either side of it. Stonhenge c2500 BCE Wiltshire County, England Implied lines can also extend beyond the edges of an artwork. We imagine a line that goes from one person’s eyes to the other. Implied lines are also found in the gaze between two people. Implied lines are lines that we see in our mind’s eye that fill in the spaces between objects, such as a line of lights in the ceiling and the rows of windows in a large office building. Contour lines define both the edges of the object and the negative space between them, such as the space between the rungs of a ladder. Contour lines define the edges of objects, like the sides of a bookcase, the edges of a table, a boulder, a window. Examples of actual lines include lines painted on a highway, tree branches, lines incised on the surface of gravestone, telephone poles, neon signs, and words on a page. Line is a vital element of any artwork.Īctual lines are marks or objects that are real lines they exist physically. A line is a path traced by a moving point, i.e. What is a line? Geometrically, it connects two points.
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