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What is Line Art or Line Drawing? 7 Beautiful Images Old and New
For my friends the art lovers.
Line art, or line drawing, is the most basic element of visual art. I always begin an artwork with a line.
Every single line means something. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality, he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line. ~Samuel Beckett
The line is a hallmark of the arts. Along with form, color, shape, value, texture, and space.
Line art is compared to the best minimalist art because it employs basic elements lines, in order to create things, figures, perspective, movement.
Line art or line drawing is any image that consists of distinct straight or curved lines placed against a background, without gradations in shade or hue to represent two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects. Line art can use lines of different colors, although line art is usually monochromatic. Wikipedia.
