Lines Flashcards
It always has width because it is drawn using concrete materials like pencil, chalk, or pen.
Line
These lines that are visible and clearly expressed.
Actual Lines
It is another type of line which we see dotted or dash lines.
Implied Line
2 kinds of Lines
- Straight Lines
2. Curved Lines
These lines can run horizontally, diagonally, vertically, or meander.
Straight Lines
These lines can run in the direction of spiral, wavy, zigzag, and jagged.
Curved Lines
It is an important lines or an implied lines that are used to create the illusion of depth.
Perspective Line
It is a focused point of Perspective Lines.
Vanishing Point
8 drawing of lines that are used to express emotions.
- Light
- Fine
- Delicate
- Rough
- Heavy
- Flowing
- Jabbing
- Dabbing
It associated with rest or calm, and concrete parallelism to the ground and reclined body at rest.
Horizontal
It usually taken to mean exaltation or aspiration for action, and elevation or height.
Vertical
It expresses progression, movement, and instability.
Diagonal
It is a reminiscent of violence, conflict, or struggle.
Crooked or Jagged
It is alluded to softness, grace, flexibility, or even sensuality.
Curve
3 greatly heightens when a repetitive or rhythmic multiplicity of curved lines appear.
- Movement
- Vitality
- Energy
Example of the Implied Line
Leonardo da Vinci, “Virgin of the Rocks”
Example(s) of the Perspective Line
Vincent Van Gogh, “Bedroom in Arles”
Raphael, “School of Athens”
Example(s) of line colliding or repeating.
Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow (1937-42)
Jackson Pollock, “Mural”
Example(s) of expressive line
Vincent Van Gogh, “Starry Night”
Example(s) of Horizontal and Vertical Lines
Stonehenge, England (2600-2000 BCE)
The Parthenon, Greece (447-438 BCE)
The Dolmens of Diarmuid and Grainne, Ireland
Example(s) of Diagonal Lines
Edgar Degas, “Blue Dancers” (1899)
Gustave Caillebotte, “Le Pont de L’ Europe” (1881-1882)
Artemisia Gentileschi, “Judith Slaying Holoferness” (1614-20)
Example(s) of Contour Lines
Leonardo da Vinci, Self-Portrait
Yoruba artist, Shrine Head (12th-14th Century)
Andy Warhol, Red Lenin (1987)
Example(s) of Gestural Lines
Jean-Honore Fragonard, “The Swing” (1767)
Utagawa Hiroshige, The Whirlpools of Ara: Naruto Rapids” (1853)
Henri Matisse, “Dance” (1909)
It pertains to the lightness and darkness of a line.
Tone
These means that lines are either straight or curved.
Movement
This is done when tone is suggested.
Volume
These are lines that come together and depicts volume and surface as well as express movement and emotions.
Gesture Lines
Finished work that uses gesture lines.
Gestural Drawing
It is needed to perceive anything. It’s physical nature is mysterious, what we do know is it is electromagnetic energy.
Light
This light is what artists use, whether natural or artificial.
Actual Light
It refers to the intensity of light and darkness in a reflective or non-light transmitting surface or medium.
Value
Example of a light transmitting medium
Video Screen
Example of a non-transmitting light
Tarpaulin
It is one that shows value from the darkest black to white and all the gradations of gray in between.
Achromatic Value Scale
It is the gradation of light and dark that gives the illusion of roundedness and depth in flat painting.
Chiaroscuro
It is the softening of light and the depiction of distant forms as blurry and washed out.
Atmospheric or Aerial Perspective
