ELEMENTS OF ART:
LINES
TYPES OF LINES
HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL LINES
Stonehenge, ca. 2600-2000 B.C.E.
Ancient Greece, The Parthenon, 447-438
B.C.E.
Ireland, The Dolmens of Darmuid
and Grainne
HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL LINES
Frank Lloyd Wright,
Falling Water
Ancient Greece, The Parthenon, 447-438
B.C.E.
HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL LINES
Byzantine, Justinian and his Attendants, Basilica di San
Vitale, 547 C.E
Piet Mondrian, Composition in Red,
Blue, and Yellow, 1937-42
DIAGONAL LINES IN ARTWORKS
Edgar Degas,
Blue Dancers,
c. 1899
Gustave Caillebotte, Le Pont de L’Europe, 1881-1882
DIAGONAL LINES IN ARTWORKS
Michelangelo Merisi
da Caravaggio,
The Crucifixion of
Saint Peter, 16001601
Artemisia
Gentileschi,
Judith Slaying
Holofernes, 1614–
20
DIAGONAL LINES IN ARTWORKS
Théodore Géricault,
The Raft of the
Medusa, 1819
CONTOUR LINES AND/OR OUTLINES
Leonardo da Vinci, Self-Portrait,
Yoruba artist, Shrine Head, 12th-14th century
Andy Warhol, Red Lenin, 1987
GESTURE LINES, LINES THAT SHOW MOVEMENT
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing,
1767
GESTURE LINES, LINES THAT SHOW MOVEMENT
Utagawa Hiroshige, The Whirlpools of Awa:
Naruto Rapids, ca. 1853
GESTURE LINES, LINES THAT SHOW MOVEMENT
Henri Matisse, Dance (I),
1909
GESTURE LINES, LINES THAT SHOW MOVEMENT
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina,
1621-22
GESTURE LINES, LINES THAT SHOW MOVEMENT
Emile Nolde, Dance Around the Golden Calf, 1910
LINES THAT SHOW EMOTION,
EXPRESSIVE LINES
LINES THAT SHOW EMOTION,
EXPRESSIVE LINES
LINES THAT SHOW EMOTION,
EXPRESSIVE LINES
Mark Di Suvero, Are Years What? (for
Marianne Moore), 1967
LINES THAT SHOW EMOTION,
EXPRESSIVE LINES
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1984
LINES THAT SHOW EMOTION,
EXPRESSIVE LINES
Egon Schiele, Portrait of Paris von
Gütersloh, 1918
LINES THAT SHOW EMOTION,
EXPRESSIVE LINES
Odilon Redon, Death:
“My irony surpasses all others!”,
1889
LINES THAT SHOW EMOTION,
EXPRESSIVE LINES
Hellenistic Greek, Laocoön and
His Sons, early first century C.E.
Source:
Artworks that Show Line. (2015, April 9). Art Class Curator.
https://artclasscurator.com/artworks-that-show-line/
ELEMENTS OF ART:
LINES