Chapter 4 Line Paul Cezanne The Basket of Apples Father of Modern Art Took us from the 1800 to the 1900 o Basket of Apples Complex arrangement of visual elements o Line o Shape o Light o Color o Space o Time Still life o Animates picture plane o Dynamic rather than static o Composition o Engages viewer Line Fundamental formal element A line delineates shape a 2 D area o It indicates the edge of a flat shape A line delineates mass a 3 D volume 09 17 2012 o It indicates a 3 dimensional form Line can be Expressive Analytical Andy Goldsworthy Hazel Leaves Andy Goldsworthy Yellow Flowers on Rock Reconstructed icicles around a Tree o Calder Random hanging thing Line can Divide Connect Animate Simply Describe Thick Thin Smooth Agitated Continuous Interrupted Straight Curved Enclose and form shapes Create or determine edges Outline contains a shape by establishing edges Contour line suggests mass and Volume Implied line suggests continuance Jaune Quick to see Smith House House Is an example of Outline o Native American Collage of o Images o Rough drawing o Layers of text Political commentary Past and present cultural appropriation and abuse Jaune Quick to see Smith Trade Gifts for Trading Land with White people Political Commentary Outline Henri Gaudier Brzeska Standing Female from the back o o Example of Contour lines o Suggestion of Volume and Mass Alberto Giacometti Man pointing The figure itself is a LINE Gesture of pointing activates space Thin figure suggests fragility o Meaning Isolation thinness of life solitude o Life line linear thinking Influenced by Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus o Existentialist thought What is the meaning of life Implied line Line of sight 3 horizontal spaces unite divine and mortal Line can also indicate expressive qualities Pat Steir DRAWING LESSON PART 1 Line 1 Rembrandt Van Rign THE THREE CROSSES The stark contrast and mark making lend seriousness and drama to the print Drip Line Abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock o On the floor I am more at ease I feel nearer more a part of the painting since this way I can walk around in it work from the four sides and be literally in the painting Expressive Line Lose free usually curvilinear rather than straight emotionally charged Analytical Line Mathematically precise Digonaol horizontal vertical Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night o Short Linear strokes that show movement Lines show movement throughout painting Impressionist Is it not emotion the sincerity of one s feelings fro nature that draws us Vincent van Gogh Letter to John Peter Russell Pick The Sower Vincent Van Gogh Expressive Line Sol Lewitt Wall Drawing 681 Precise Analytical Jasper Johns NUBMERS IN COLOR Uses both Expressive and Analytical in one work Jacques Louis David STUDY FOR THE DEATH OF SOCRATES Precise and Analytical Line Linear arrangement Another example is Napoleon Another Another Example is Death of Marat Contemporary artist Matthew Ritchie Uses all types of lines The curved line is like a linking gesture that joins things No Sign of the World Matthew Ritchie o Relic 12 Hung Liu Hung Liu Three Fujins Richard Long A LINE MADE BY WALKING IN ENGLAND Richard Long A LINE MADE IN THE HIMALAYAS Robert Mapplethorpe LISA LYON Dominate stance by a woment Breaks stereotypes Chapter 4 Line Book Notes 09 17 2012 Paul Cezanne s The basket of Apples Complex arrangement of visual elements o Line and shapes o Light and color o Space o Time Nature morte dead nature Varieties of Line One of the most fundamental elements of art is line Lines seem to possess direction Andy Goldsworthy Hazel Leaves Outline and Contour Line An important feature of line is that it indicates the edge of a twodimensional flat shape or a three dimensional form Henri Gaudier Brzeska s Female Nude Back View Shape can be indicated by means of an outline Three dimensional form can be indicated by contour lines The contour lines create the illusion of a body occupying the space Lines at the outside of the form define the limits of our vision Lines within the figure suggest the inner curve of elbow calf and buttocks o Jaune Quick to See Smith House Smith s simple outline drawing in other words underscores with some real nostalgia the simplicity of a traditional Native American lifestyle o Implied Line One of the most powerful kinds of implied line is a function of line of sight the direction the figures in a given composition are looking Can also serve to create a sense of directional movement and force Alberto Giacometti Man Pointing Titian Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin Cheri Samba Calvary Qualities of Line Line delineates shape and form by means of outline and contour line Implied lines create a sense of enclosure and connection as well as movement and direction Line also possesses certain intellectual emotional and expressive qualities Pat Steir Drawing Lessons Part 1 Line 1 Each pair of works represents a particular intellectual emotional or expressive quality of line o Rembrandt van Rijn The Three Crosses The center square of Steir s piece is a sort of blow up of Rembrandt s basic line Line becomes more charged emotionally as it becomes denser and darker o Expressive Qualities of Line Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night Life and death the town and the heavens collide and they are connected by both the church spire and the swaying cypress a tree traditionally used to mark graves in southern France and Italy o Sol Le Witt Wall Drawing No 681 Employs a line that is equally autographic recognizablyu his own but one that reveals to us a personality very different from van Gogh s Sol Le Witt s Line is precise controlled mathematically rigorous logical and rationally organized Van Gogh s line is imprecise emotionally charged and almost chaotic LeWitt s works are usually generated by museum staff according to LeWitt s instructions Le Witt s drawings usually echo the geometry of the room s architecture lending the work a sense of mathematical precision and regularity Grid the pattern of vertical and horizontal lines crossing one another to make squares that most characteristically dominates compositions of this variety o Jasper Johns Numbers in Color Artists use both loose and controlled line in the same work o Matthew Ritchie No Sign of the World Hung Liu Relic A Chinese born painter working today in the United States Addresses woman s place in both pre and post revolutionary China Straight and curved lines contrast with one another here they seem to work together to create