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Understanding Actual vs Implied Lines in Visual Art: A Comprehensive Guide

This chapter from Sayre's 7th edition delves into the division of visual elements in art, specifically focusing on actual versus implied lines. It explores the characteristics of lines, including active, passive, aggressive, and sensual types. Through examples from 2D paintings to 3D sculptures, the chapter clarifies how these lines create visual connections and guide the viewer’s eye. By examining directional forces, including vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, it reveals how line orientation conveys stability, rest, and motion, thus enhancing the expressive quality of artworks.

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Understanding Actual vs Implied Lines in Visual Art: A Comprehensive Guide

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  1. We begin the Visual Elements…Line Chapter 4 - Sayre 7th edition

  2. LineActual vs. Implied • All the visual elements can be divided into actual vs. implied (i.e. actual mass vs. implied mass) • Usually the division is based on whether the work of art is 2D or 3D (i.e. sculpture has actual mass, painting has implied mass)

  3. Actual lines (Fig 265/10-21 ) Detail

  4. Outline and Contour LinesFigs 64/4-5 and 65/4-6

  5. Implied lines • Suggested visual connections (i.e. sight lines) Fig 67/4-8

  6. Fig 171/7-13 Does this exemplify actual or implied lines? HINT: It’s a trick!

  7. Lines have a variety of characteristics… (four volunteers) • Active • Passive • Aggressive • Sensual

  8. And anything around and between… Your book, for example, shows us two opposing types of line.

  9. Expressive Line (fig 73/4-14)

  10. Analytical or Classical Line (fig 77/4-18)

  11. Part of the expressive quality of line has to do with Directional Force or Line Orientation

  12. Line and Directional Force Directional forces – “paths” for the eye to follow, provided by actual or implied lines, in a work of art Directional forces - reveal a work of art’s underlying energy or basic visual structure

  13. Vertical line - feeling of stability • Horizontal line – feeling of rest • Diagonal line – feeling of motion

  14. Vertical (fig 601/18-17 )

  15. Not so much (Fig 182/8-2) Frank Gehry

  16. Horizontal (fig 650/19-37 )

  17. Diagonal (fig 87/4-27)

  18. What is the directional force?

  19. Image # 1 (Fig 360/12-50)

  20. Image # 2 (Fig 265/10-21)

  21. Image # 3 (Fig 695/21-10)

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