Our textbook talks about the use of line which is, it divides or connects things depending on how it is used by an artist in his or her work. It goes further to also say that there are varieties of lines which includes outline, contour line and implied line. Through the example of works by artist that used lines, I was taken aback by Alberto Giacometti’s Man pointing. This work demonstrate the use of line that takes something from being so simply to being meaningful and having a lot of detail to it. When you first see the work, it looks like a thin molded man just standing there and pointing. If you take a second look which is exactly what you do upon seeing it, your mind starts to realize that this thin man is actually giving you orders to look at a certain direction. Without thinking about it your head will automatically turn that same way to discover what is to be seen in the direction the man is pointing. The line that brings this kind of change and life to the man is called implied line. Even though there is no line hooking the direction the man is pointing physically, our mind still imagine a line from the direction the man is pointing.
Our textbook talks about the use of line which is, it divides or connects things depending on how it is used by an artist in his or her work. It goes further to also say that there are varieties of lines which includes outline, contour line and implied line. Through the example of works by artist that used lines, I was taken aback by Alberto Giacometti’s Man pointing. This work demonstrate the use of line that takes something from being so simply to being meaningful and having a lot of detail to it. When you first see the work, it looks like a thin molded man just standing there and pointing. If you take a second look which is exactly what you do upon seeing it, your mind starts to realize that this thin man is actually giving you orders to look at a certain direction. Without thinking about it your head will automatically turn that same way to discover what is to be seen in the direction the man is pointing. The line that brings this kind of change and life to the man is called implied line. Even though there is no line hooking the direction the man is pointing physically, our mind still imagine a line from the direction the man is pointing.
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