Lines 03 06 2014 The Basket of Apples by Paul Cezanne 1895 oil on canvas still life has multiple views perspectives Father of Modern Painting Complex Arrangement of visual element o Line shape light color space and time This picture is a still life that o Animates picture plane o Dynamic rather than static o Composition o Engages the viewer Deliberate and complex manipulation Refer back to representational abstract and non representational Formal elements of art Line space color light texture LINE A line delineates shape a 2 dim area it indicates the edge of a flat shape A line delineates mass a 3 dim volume it indicates a 3 dim Form Example of line is Hazel Leaves By Andy Goldsworthy 1991 walks out into the earth and picks up what he needs and links them together A photograph A changeable impermanent lines are metaphor for human life He also does o British sculptor o Environmental art o Site specific art in natural settings o River and tides Yellow Flowers on Rock by Him as well Reconstructed Icicles around a tree by Andy Goldsworthy 1995 o not in book Lines can be EXPRESSIVE or ANALYTICAL Line Can Divide Connect Animate Simply describe Also can be Thick Smooth Thin Agitated Continuous Interrupted Straight Curved And enclose and form shapes Create or determine edges Can use lines by making And OUTLINE contains a shape by establishing edges CONTOUR LINE the perceived line that marks the border of an object in pace HOUSE Jaune Quick to see Smith acrylic and mixed media on canvas a teepee o is a Native American contour line and has a distinct outline collage of o images o rough drawing o layers of text political commentary past and present cultural Trade Gifts for Trading Land with White People 1992 not in book Female Nude Back View Henri Gaudier Brzeska pen and blue ink on paper contour and outline lines w in the figure suggest form from our point of view o Line Delineates form Implied line line of sights 3 horizontal spaces unite divine and mortal the direction the figures in a given composition are looking Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin Titian 1516 example of implied line o Cheri Samba Calvary 1992 acrylic on canvas Implied line can also serve to create a sense of directional movement and force o LINE Delineates for and shape Creates a sense of direction and movement Genetics of emotion regulation The figure itself is a line Man Pointing Alberto Giacometti 1947 The figure itself is a line Gesture of pointing activates space Thin figure suggests fragility meaning isolation thinness of life solitude life line linear thinking Influenced by Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus by the Meaning of life The Three Crosses by Rembrandt van Rijn etching adds further drama to the imagery and as a whole Drip Line abstract expressionists by Jackson Pollock EXPRESSIVE LINE loose free usually curvier rather than straight emotionally charge Analytic Line Closely related to classical line a kind of line that is mathematical precise and rationally organized epitomized by the vertical and horizontal grid THE STARRY NIGHT Vincent van gogh Expressive line o The sower by van gogh Expressive line aswell Wall Drawing Sol LeWitt example of analytical Numbers in Color Jasper John Grid lends a sense of order and unity The numbers impose logic where none seems to exist o The Death of Socrates Jacques Louis David Contemporary artist Matthew Ritchie No Sign of the World oil and marker on canvas Hung Liu Relic 12 2005 Chinese courtesan surrounded by symbols Pi universe Butterfly change joy love Nu WA Female birth marriage o Also by her Three Fujins bound the system submission of the female and the Relationship of Power Contrast is very important o A line Made by Walking in England Richard Long Zeus or Poseidon Aphrodite In Athens Lisa Lyon Robert Mapplethorpe blurring of the sexes females can be masculine Expressive Composition SPACE 03 06 2014 Space Shape and Mass 2 Dimensional Space 3 Dimensional Space Linear Perspective Foreshortening Modern Shape Flat 2 dim area height and width Lemons May 16 1984 by Donald Sultan Latex tar on vinyl on wood Flat yellow shape on an 8 ft black ground shape Lemons created by an outline by yellow black ground and by the tar plaster Figure ground relationship in the foreground positive shape in the background Negative Example of foreground relationship RUBIN VASE Figure Ground reversals our perceptual experience depends on recognition of spatial relationships between Another example M C ESCHER Symmetry Drawing 89 Solid 3 dim sculpture Volume Height and width an depth Example of 3 dim shape Martin Puryear Self Like a rock weathered by sand hidden secret fragility of the self a visual notion of the self the self of as asecret identitiy as a secret place o Another example of 3 dim sculpture Barbara Hepworth Two Figures 2 Standing Vertical masses o Uses the negative and positive space o Sculpture figures occupy space as do humans o Ceremonial Spoon artist UNKNOWN Liberia represents the power of the imagination to transform an everyday object into a symbol of society Form is anatomical Concept is hospitality o Olafur Eliasson suney 1995 Example use of Space Depth technique to show deep space on 2 dim surface Foreground Background Middle ground How do they show this on paper Scale Illusion of foreground and background Overlap illusion of one object in front of the other Perspective illusion of placement in space 2 Dim Space one creates the illusion of space use of scale example Jenny Saville scale of painting scale of figure scale of concept o Using Space in a OVERLAP Rogier Van der Wyden Deposition c 1435 PERSPECTIVE example RAPHAEL School of Athens LINEAR PERSPECTIVE technique that makes use of line to create illusion of depth on a 2 dim surface Perspective one point perspective using a single vanishing point Vanishing point where the converging lines meet Example of one point linear perspective Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin by Duccio Maesta Altarpiece tempera on panel Another Example of one point linear perspective The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci all the vanishing points meet at the Christ figure in the middle TWO POINT PERSPECTIVE using multiple vanishing points Example of that Gustave Caillebotte Place de l Europe on a rainy Day Oil on canvas Curvilinear lines o Atmospheric Perspective technique use to create the illusion of air and space and depth Foreshortening artistic adjustment of dimenaion in order to make up for distortion Draftsman Drawing a