Leading Lines

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LEADING LINES

Sophie Grant

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Leading Lines

Welcome to my home, childhood vision, and intimate future Leading Lines, opening day is December, 4th at 7:30 pm. As a child, I (Sophia Grant) have engraved a vision in my immediate memory of a master piece of infrastructure incased with many masterpieces in which we will unveil tonight throughout the museum. All children from ages 6 and under can draw on the walls with provided utensils.  While allowing this to happen, as a community we are illuminating the inner creativity of adolescence around to be expressed and have an impact on the youth to create a bigger audience. We will use the lines drawn from the children as a gateway from adult to childhood, knowingly everyone has this side tucked away, it will be a special moment of lines.  Lines give pieces’ emphasis and structure, as a child the only way to make my ideas and visions tangible were to project them on paper. Therefore, we are going to go back to the basis of basic drawings, so the main theme of these pieces shown will be lines, emphasizing form and outline; without lines is like me with out my pen and paper.

What is a line? A line is a mark or implied mark between two end points. If you think about it a line is there in almost every art work or design. Without a line where would artist start their work? Line defines a shape; to make a shape you have to connect lines together. Even though line is the basic it is the most important thing to the art world. It’s the beginning of every master piece that has been created. Artist use lines to define the boundaries between planes in a two dimensional art work. Lines may direct your eyes to look at a certain area the artist wants us to notice. There are many kinds of lines and different things an artist can do with them. I have picked 5 pictures to discuss from my museum that all have to deal lines but just different kinds of lines.

The first two art works is a drawing and a photograph of the Ducal Palace in Venice, Italy, The Mundy Thursday Festival before the Ducal Palace in Venice, but artist Canaletto. He uses line to part boundaries between the building and the surrounding things. Line is two dimensional but the artist points out where one plane meets another and creates three dimensional dimensions. As you see in both the photograph and the drawing Canaletto uses line to show where the building and the sky meet up, but there really isn’t a line there it just makes one on its own. In the drawing Canaletto has made sure we could see the detail on everything that maybe overlook at a glance. He makes you take a second look at all the line detail in the surface. Line can also communicate and show movement. The selection of different types of lines is boundless.

Lines can be expressed through regular or irregular lines. Regular lines express control, accuracy, and be cautiously measured. Irregular lines show more of a loose wildness of chaos. Irregular lines define freedom and passion as shown in Automatic Drawing by Andre Masson and Suite avec 7 Personnages by Jean Dubuffet appear to both be using loose free lines. In both drawings it seems that they are both unstructured and unpredictable and even scribbled like but there is still control going on.

My favorite of them all implied lines because implied lines trick you from far but up close they are not connected. These lines create a design by using small writing. In the Pentateuch with Prophetical Reading and the Five Scrolls you can see from far that the border text is connect in 1.10 but if you take a closer look in 1.11 you can see that it is obvious there is no line what so ever and it is just Hebrew words and letters, which means implied line. Implied line is a more of a freeform way in work.