ELEMENTS OF ART:

LINES
TYPES OF LINES
 HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL LINES

Ireland, The Dolmens of Darmuid

and Grainne
Stonehenge, ca. 2600-2000 B.C.E. Ancient Greece, The Parthenon, 447-438
B.C.E.
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 Piet Mondrian, Composition in Red,
Vitale, 547 C.E 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, 1600- Artemisia
1601 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